Building A Site Out Of Site & Then Moving It

  • mrtcooper

    (@mrtcooper)


    13 years, 9 months ago

    I have an existing non WordPress Site which gets a reasonable amount of daily traffic. I want to upgrade the website to a WordPress Site. This will of course involve uploading the site & editing it whilst in view to the rest of the world.

    So what I would like to do is to host the site from a sub folder of the main domain, & then once I’ve got the site looking right, transfer it to the main root of the domain & delete the old site.

    The question is, how do I do it? I use Godaddy hosting exchange, so initially I would just set the site up in a subdirectory called /test. But what would I set the Site URL & The WordPress URL as initially (I’m asking because I got in a mess the other week doing the same thing).

    Then, what would be the exact procedure when I transfer the entire contents of the /test folding into the /root folder.

    Is it as simple as moving the site on the ftp, then altering the URL details to the root domain?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Install and build everything in your /test/ directory, then follow this guide when you’re ready to move it:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site

    Thread Starter mrtcooper

    (@mrtcooper)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks MacManX. As you are aware from my previous posts I’ve been having a few headaches with the Godaddy Hosting.

    The .htaccess file isn’t visible but is there & takes up to 24 hours to automatically update. This is going to be a bit of a headache I think. I might drop a call into Godaddy to discuss the move further, before I spend hours inputting data into the site for it to go belly up when I try & move it.

    Thanks again for the help.

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