Posted by El Rey Mark on January 17, 2013 at 10:33am
Hi,
I'd like to hear your suggestion for best practice...
A friend of mine has a website which is not made with drupal.
We would like to create a new drupal site on the same domainname and create a subdomain as well.
Until the new site is ready the old one must stay online.
Can I upload drupal to the existing domain and start there or should I do it differently?
Regards
Mark
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It depends on website
It depends on website features.
To develop the site in Drupal, go to drupal.org and follow the documentation as per your needs.
-Imran
Yes, you can.
You can display the present web site as default (eg. under "www" folder) and create a sub folder for Drupal (eg. "drupal" or "newsite").
Nota: this advice no required to manage DNS, is a "quick & dirty" way :)
1- Configure your database and user
2- Put Drupal installation and start (eg. http://www.mysite.com/drupal/install.php)
3- Follow the installation steps
4- Customize you new Drupal site (modules, theme, ecc...)
5- When finished and you are ready to go online you can rename these folder (eg. "www" becomes "oldsite" and "newsite" becomes "www")
Tips:
A- be ever log into Drupal as user-1 (admin)
B- run clear cache and an update.php at the end
C- using also "relative" url-path for images and internal links (eg. /sites/default/files/images/..)
IF the present web site is located directly inside the root (eg. htdocs) you can create only the new sub directory (eg. "drupal" or "newsite"), start with steps above and when you are finished create only e new folder "oldsite", move into "oldsite" the presente site and after move all content from "drupal" folder (or "newsite") to root.
I've make this many times and works.
Ciao
Fabrizio
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