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Installing Textpattern into an existing site?
i can’t seem to find instructions or an FAQ or a good practice for installing textpattern into an existing website?
My current website has an existing public/index.html file which i want to leave there until i move everything into TxP… so how does one do this?
I tried installing TxP in the root directory and edited the .htaccess file to us the index.html file before the index.php file. But this did not work.
( when i installed TXP via Joyent’s scripts it wiped out all my files including all my original files in public/ … .good thing i backed up the site offline ;-) )
So how does one leave their existing non-TxP site up and running while developing their new TxP site. Can i install TxP in a subdirectory for example in public/tmp/ or public/new/ ?
Will this parallel site be safe from being indexed by robots?
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Re: Installing Textpattern into an existing site?
Hi Bici
You can try installing txp without htacess, like that the index.html still work and you can access your txp site with url yourdomain/index.php, dont forget to use messy url in txp.
Cheers
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#3 2010-01-21 19:41:36
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Re: Installing Textpattern into an existing site?
bici wrote:
Can i install TxP in a subdirectory for example in public/tmp/ or public/new/ ?
That’s how I usually do it. Instructions on how to move it to the root when it’s finished in Textbook.
Will this parallel site be safe from being indexed by robots?
Yes, you can for instance add <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" /> to your pages. (Don’t forget to remove it when the site goes live…). Or you can password protect the development site. Or use rvm_maintenance.
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