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1. HungTVG
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hello,
   I am in process of founding new online business and decide to start with WordPress and install it at http://www.mydomain.com 's root (which means my Homepage 's URL is http://www.mydomain.com - no subfolder) . However, in the future, I would use a self-building system to power my website and it will be also at the root. When I public the new system, I want my customer see the new website at http://www.mydomain.com instead of WordPress Homepage. But I still wish my WordPress to run for a time (without Homepage) and keep old articles on WordPress because I do not want to lose the traffic from Search Engines. I can not move my WordPress to a subdirectory because that will cause broken URLs. I hope there are some solutions in my case
   Thanks

2. Jan Dembowski
   Volunteer Mod. & Brute Squad
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I can not move my WordPress to a subdirectory because that will cause broken URLs

   That won't work because WordPress needs to be the default document index.php. You can preempt that with another default such as index.html but it's not a good idea as things will break.

   Try instead this: move your WordPress blog to a subdirectory now and use .htaccess to redirect the old URLs to the new location.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule (.*) http://your-url-goes-here/blog/$1 [R=301,L]
   </IfModule>

   That way the search engine traffic will get updated, you will not lose traffic, and your root will be freed up for the new "self-building system".

3. HungTVG
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Thank you. But for personal reasons, I do not want to move my WordPress. I want to keep the URLs as orginal. Is any solution for me?

4. Jan Dembowski
   Volunteer Mod. & Brute Squad
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Likely not. The problem is that any solution would be a hack and those can become unsupportable really quick.

   If you want both independent software to work in the same URL space them a conflict will occur and troubleshooting will be difficult.

5. HungTVG
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Thank you. Perhaps I will install my WordPress on s sub folder.

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