Title: replace an existing website with WordPress
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# replace an existing website with WordPress

 *  Resolved [albero78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albero78/)
 * (@albero78)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-an-existing-website-with-wordpress/)
 * Hello.
 * Simple question: I have an old website which has written directly in HTML.
    I’d
   like to replace it (same url) with a wordpress website.
 * But I’d like to put all the content of the old site in the new. While I am doing
   this operation I want the old site to stay online.
 * Question: how can I work separetely with the worpress installation leaving the
   old site running for a while and how – when the wordpress site is ready and complete–
   replace the old one with the new one making it available typing the same url?
 * Thanks in advance for your attention and your replies.
    Andrea

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 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-an-existing-website-with-wordpress/#post-2409615)
 * throw it up in a subdirectory… domain.com/wordpress
 * When it is all set, move it (WP can be left in the subdirectory, but run from
   root. This would be ideal for this type of setup)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install)
 *  Thread Starter [albero78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albero78/)
 * (@albero78)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-an-existing-website-with-wordpress/#post-2409620)
 * Ehi thanks.
    Looks easy.

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-an-existing-website-with-wordpress/#post-2409620)
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