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Trying to switch our site to wordpress, this is tricky could use some help..

by RedShifted
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Ok so heres the deal, we have 2 websites:

NJ Energy Experts - High Efficiency Energy Systems Located in New Jersey
All County Waterproofing | Basement Waterproofing & Mold Remediation Services serving New Jersey

Please don't critique them as I know they need a lot of work, thats the whole reason we're moving them to wordpress.

This is confusing me however. The servers the sites are both on now, will NOT allow wordpress installation. So I'm going to pay some guy on fiver to move both domains over to a server that does allow wordpress.

Heres where things get tricky. In order to install wordpress, then build 2 new, better sites, the old 2 sites have to come down. I am not a programmer, but we are doing PPC, and can not have the sites come down for a minute. We need them up on those domains or we will lose business.

Is my only option to buy 2 new domains (development domains I guess you can call them), to build the wordpress sites, then move them a SECOND time to the domains they're on now, just on a new server?

Or is that just stupid? Is there an easier way to get this done?
I can install wordpress myself, I do NOT know how to transfer a site from one server to another. What is the simplest way to do this?

Right now only way I see of accomplishing this goes like this:
We pay a guy to move the domains to a new server that accepts wordpress. We keep the sites in html format for now. I buy a new domain to install wordpress, build 1 site, then pay someone on fiver to switch the wordpress site from its development domain to their original domains. Then repeat for the second site.

I feel like a complete moron just writing out a "solution" like that. Theres got to be a better way no?

-Red
#site #switch #tricky #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author OldLodgeSkins
    Hi,

    What I would do, is NOT touch the current sites for now, build the new ones on my development server - the domain names really do not matter at this point - and do the change once the new sites are ready (back them up, restore them on the definitive server, transfer the domain names at this point). That way your downtime shouldn't last longer than it takes for the domain names to switch.

    If you don't have a development server just take some cheap hosting with two databases (one per website). Or work on the definitive server but without the domain names (so you'll have some long ugly address but this isn't important as long as the sites are not open to the public).

    Seb.
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  • Profile picture of the author rusty1027
    Create the 2 sites at your new host, but leave the DNS at your registrar pointing at your old server.

    Then copy your 2 existing sites to the new server (it looks like they're just straight HTML sites with a php form, so they'll be simple to move)

    Once they’re at the new host, modify the name server info at your registrar to point to the new host. This will transfer your sites from the old host to the new host transparently.

    Now once they’ve transferred, install WordPress in a subdirectory – for example http://your domain.com/blog

    Now you can develop the new site in WordPress while the old site is still doing its thing.

    Once the new WordPress site is ready, move out of the subdirectory and into the root – voila, you’re done!
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