taking down old website and keeping WP files

  • Resolved Bernd Karlsboeck

    (@bernd-karlsboeck)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    Hey yall

    My situation:
    Before installing WordPress I have created my website with Adobe Muse (not a real option) and hosted it on world4you.
    Well after i created the website I installed wordpress.
    I didn’t want to take down my page so I kept the files on the server and already played around with themes and pages so the website it pretty much done.
    The only problem now. I would like to use the urls of my old website for the new one.
    Redirecting is kind of a dirty solution so I would like to take down all the files from my old website and leave the wordpress related files alone so I can use the urls.

    Questions:
    My server looks quite cluttered. I’m not sure if wordpress was installed in a sub directory… I can still find the “old website files” easily and take them off the server…
    but I’m afraid wordpress overwrites files when being installed… thus making me accidentally delete wordpress files. Does WP overwrite anything?

    What are the usual WP files and folders i have to watch out for?

    I’m saving everything that’s on my server right now into a folder in case I fuck this up. Can I just upload all the files and everything works as it does now?

    Thanks for your help guys

    [Moderator Note: No bumping, thank you.]

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  • Wil

    (@limecanvas)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Hey Bernd

    To locate your WordPress folder find your .htaccess file in your public_html, www or htdocs folder.

    Have a look for the lines:
    RewriteBase /
    or
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

    / indicates that your WordPress installation is in your root web folder. Anything else before there will tell you the sub folder that your WordPress installation is in.

    The best way to figure out what are WordPress folders and files is to download the wordpress .zip from wordpress.org and unzip it on your local machine.

    That will give you a clean WordPress installation and files to search for.

    Note: wp-config.php will is not in the .zip file as this is the main configuration file you create on your host from wp-config-sample.php. Don’t zap that file from your server!!

    IF you’re using cPanel, grab a backup of everything and download that to local before making any changes. Worst case scenario is that you’ll have to upload the zip file and unpack.

    As for URLs, you can map these using 301 – it’s not that dirty – millions of sites use them.

    Wil.

    Thread Starter Bernd Karlsboeck

    (@bernd-karlsboeck)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Ok thanks I could seperate the files from wp files.
    As soon as they where off the server using the url was easy

    forever at your service
    THANKS!!!

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