Yea sorry, this was supposed to be an entry level position, but the other guy was ,well, the only other guy in the IT dept. When he left, everything got dumped on me.
using a LAMP ubuntu LTS. my problem is that the site is borrowing resources from another server. The story is that the guy before me left without documentation on how to edit the site and everything is encrypted. so i ripped the html for the old site and edited as i needed to to get the site where i needed it. this new html was pasted into a wordpress CMS running on the ubuntu server mentioned. so what i did was then redirect the url of the old site to the IP address where the wordpress version of the site is hosted. can I then assume that all i need to do is create a domain name with wordpress using the IP address of the server and then use the same redirect to the new domain name hosted by wordpress?