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    lucas572
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    Hi all!

    Bit of a awkward one here. I’ve built a client website, and want to test it on their live server before the official hand-over.

    Annoyingly, he doesn’t have any subdomains on his hosting account. So, I’m trying to install WP into a folder on his site.

    But, I get the impression that I can’t have siteurl.com display his current (old) website, and siteurl.com/wp display a whole new website without affecting the other?

    I’ve created the wp folder in the root of his server and moved all of the files across, created a new DB and imported all of the tables. Changing the Site URL and Home table rows in the wp_options table to siteurl.com/wp.

    This didn’t work for some reason, I’m assuming because WP is expecting the index.php to be in the actual root of the site rather than inside a folder?

    #146268
    chrisburton
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    The folder is considered a subdomain. You have to copy (do not move!) the index.php and htaccess file and put it in the root, I believe. There are numerous tutorials on this.

    #146295
    Alen
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    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.

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