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by: katiecaldwell November 14, 2011 3:05 AM PST

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Switching a website to wordpress

by katiecaldwell - 11/14/11 3:05 AM

I'm in the process of creating a new website for an existing domain (the previous website was created using dreamweaver). I've discovered I need to switch hosts in order to effectiviely install and utilise Wordpress but I'm worried that installing wordpress to my domain will wipe my current webiste. I want the old website to remain online until my new wordpress site is ready to go live - and obviously I really don't want to change my domain name. Is this possible? And if so how?!! Any help would be VERY grateful!


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Re: domain

by Kees_B Moderator - 11/14/11 3:34 AM

In Reply to: Switching a website to wordpress by katiecaldwell

When your new website is ready, you'll have to contact the old and the new hosting companies to switch the the domain from the old to the new hoster. That's a change in the Internet DNS, that links the URL of your site to the IP-address used by the hosting company.

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Moving from Static HMTL to Wordpress

by recentcoin - 11/14/11 1:26 PM

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Well, easy for me say, at any event.

1) Move your Dreamweaver (static HTML) site to your new host now.
2) Create a directory in your new home and call it cms (don't use wordpress as its an invitation to bots, etc.)
3) Install wordpress there
4) Create a .htaccess in the root of your static website
5) Once you get the pages moves add the following to the .htaccess
redirect permanent /myoldpage.html /cms/mynewpage

Replace the page names with the things from your site and go on about your business. When you get to the last one, you will simply add
redirect permanent index.html /cms

That will be the end of your old site and everything should be served from your new site.


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Switching a website to wordpress

by CapeWebHost - 11/16/11 11:20 PM

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What you would need to do is setup a new hosting package with the new host first. Then you can install wordpress on that package using a temporary url which your host will provide you with. Once your site is complete and you are ready to go live with it. you can contact you domain registrar and simply change the nameservers on your domain to point to the new host's nameservers. As soon as propagation is complete (could take up to 72 hours) your site will resolve to the new servers and your Wordpress site will be live! happy


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