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1. johnrbarringer
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   I'm working on a site for a friend of mine (clearwaterbutterfly.com) and am trying to install Wordpress, he currently uses Front Page. I'm wanting to work on the Wordpress theme without taking down his Front Page theme just yet. I have 2 questions that are killing me...

   1) In trying to install Wordpress I've hit a small roadblock. I'm moved the folder "wp-admin" into his FTP client (it's in his "httpdocs" folder), I've updated his wp-config.php file, and moved his index.php file; however, when I got to clearwaterbutterfly.php I get "Page Not Found." What am I doing wrong?

   2) How do I keep his Front Page site running while I work on the Wordpress end?

   Any help would me MUCH appreciated! MUCH!

2. songdogtech
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   See Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex to fix the problems caused by moving Wordpress. And then why not install wordpress in another directory (like/wordpress/) and then move it to root when the frontpage site is ready to be taken down?

3. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Don't quite understand what you are saying in question 1. You have to move the entire WP installation, not parts of it, if that is not clear.

   I suggest you build the WP site in a subfolder rather than installing it in the same folder as frontpage. You are asking for difficulties if you do it that.

   There is a way to later change WP so it can be accessed from the top folder URL even though its files resides in a sub-folder. That seems like a good solution for your situation.

   For later on, see
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
   Just remember that is for people who installed it in the root and want to move it to a folder. You will have approached it the other way around but the solution is the same.
   In the mean time you will access it as
   clearwaterbutterfly.com/wordpress/ or whatever name you give the folder its installed in.

4. johnrbarringer
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   I wrote it wrong, I'm sorry. When I go to clearwaterbutterfly.com/wp-admin I get "Page Not Found."

   And giving Wordpress it's own directory is what I'm trying to do. But when I get to "Page Not Found" I'm stuck.

5. songdogtech
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   You still need to read Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex. It's complicated by the fact that you're on a windows server and there may be permisison problems with the directories that you're moving into. If you don't have much or any content in the WP install, why not just start over? Installing WordPress « WordPress Codex. You're going to spend a lot of time figuring out what you did wrong and moving WP than reinstalling again, and doing it right. Under that Installing Wordpress link are also links for installing locally on a windows box and then moving the site to a live server, which is what you are trying to do by keeping the frontpage site live while you work on wordpress.

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