You may have already looked through these…but I’d say scanning through these links (I know its not exactly what you are doing…but similar enough) may help make sure you’ve covered your bases
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
so how does this sound? I do a second install of wordpress to the folder I would like. I then copy the contents of the old wordpress folder into the new one. Then I go in and edit all URL paths to maintain the links, and update the config files and .htaccesss files. This way, i can test the new site before altering the old one. Is there anything I am missing? Do you think the copy and paste will work or will there be data paths that will screw everything up?
I would just pretty much create the new folder and follow the ‘moving wordpress within your site’ instructions.
You can’t really have the two working at the same time (easily)….as you have to change the url in wordpress’ settings to the new url…..that setting is in your DB, it can’t really point to both installs at the same time…. if you follow the moving instructions, you change your url before you move the files…
that should work…change url…copy files over rather than just move if you are concerned (that way if something goes wrong on your new install, you can just change the url in the DB to pint back to the old install
(I hope I didn’t just confuse you…I rambled a bit I think)
My concern doing it that way is that my site will be down for a good period of time, yes.
I wouldn’t think so. You should be able to implement the changes in 5 minutes at most (barring complications)
1. make folder
2. change blog address
3. move files
4. update permalinks
done.
(that’ll get the site working…..if you have any complications you may need to do a bit more….like with media files, etc…. instructions are in the moving WP instructions)
