I want to revamp my site www.wolfmother.net to be based on Wordpress. But knowing how little time I have to do stuff like that, I'd like to install Wordpress into a different folder, say /new and work on it over a period of time. How difficult would it then be to move the whole thing to the index, replacing the site that is there? Don't know if that makes sense - it's late!
why not move it, see what all needs to be fixed, then if it's too much, move it back? I doubt it'd be that hard to get it working.
Edit: ***** I just checked your site and it is run from index.html Wordpress runs from index.php so if you install it to root nobody will be able to see it until you are ready for them to at which point you would remove your index.html . Easiest way. ***** It's not hard. All you would need to do is get everything setup how you would like then edit the urls under options to the urls they will be once moved. Install a blank wordpress to your root directory or move all files from your temp install to root. If you have permalinks setup you can just go resave the structure so that the .htaccess file will get written correctly and that's about it. I might have missed something minor but I've done this before with no issues.
Thanks for the info - I had also thought about the .html vs .php thing, but wasn't sure what impact the installation might have. I will back everything up and try that! Cheers.