installing drupal to existing site

scrambled - May 5, 2008 - 19:11

A long time client would like to start a slow integration of drupal into his existing flat file site. I was hoping to install drupal in the root file, but not affect his current index.html file (keeping his current site and homepage working as is). I do not want to affect any of his current traffic, seo (great google ranking) and so on.

Can this be done? and if so Can you point me to the how to? :)
In joomla I can just make any flat .html page and it will bypass joomla and open the flat page instead.

The plan is:
We going to only configure the drupal to run his articles, sync with VB, and build a few 'views' categories pages. Once he is comfortable with that we will continue to migrate the site to drupal and take over the entire site (whahahaha).

Thanks,

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htaccess

DNM - May 6, 2008 - 18:47

htaccess maybe?

DirectoryIndex index.htm
instead of
DirectoryIndex index.php

then just browse the drupal side by going directly to the php file.
not sure how well this will work.

ur better off building the static html pages he has into drupal as just pages.
do that offline then when u have the template the way u like just move it to the www directory.
i wouldnt recommend building it on the production side.

afraid you were going to say

scrambled - May 7, 2008 - 04:59

afraid you were going to say that. I am trying to load drupal on my vista computer and its taking some time.

Thanks for your reply

I am having a real pain in

scrambled - May 7, 2008 - 16:11

I am having a real pain in the 'A' getting drupal to run on my personal computer. Is it ok to build a test site on a live server (not the actual site) and transfer it over?

I will also have to leave the site owners homepage alone, what are the headaches involved in building in a sub-folder, but moving it in the future?

i have the same question. i

larryhead - May 7, 2008 - 19:01

i have the same question. i would like to install drupal on a existing site, but cannot take the domain/index.html offline.

i'm planning to install everything in domain.com/drupal/ and then trying to move it over to the root once it's setup how i want it... not sure how well that will work though.

Not sure if you found these

scrambled - May 7, 2008 - 20:07

Not sure if you found these threads:
http://drupal.org/node/144643
http://drupal.org/node/135206

Not sure if they help me yet, but they may help you.

I may build the site on the server in a subdirectory ie: mysite.com/main
once everything is set up, move it over to the root. Though I am sure we will still need the original index.html to be running until my client has had significant time working new content into the drupal build and being comfortable with it and its seo compatibilities. I am projecting close to one year transition (he moves slow).

And this leave the question, is it seo ok or bad seo to have a index.html and an index.php lying on your root server. Will google see this as double content and 'bitch slap the site'.

Any ideas?