Reply To: Installing WP into a folder (not a subdomain)

[Alen]

Wait. Don’t copy anything!

So the clients current website is at root…

/root

and you want to test, not deploy… so create folder inside root

/root/wordpress

install clean copy of wordpress, then import all the content/files/theme for testing

when you’re ready to deploy, it’s just a matter of changing few things… you might also want to protect /root/wordpress folder with .htaccess so that it’s not accessible to public.