I am going to be building a WordPress site in beta…
Add a folder for your beta project inside whatever folder your current “live” installation exists, and you can use any name you wish for that folder. For example:
path: /home/mydomain/public_html/ourlivesite
path: /home/mydomain/public_html/ourlivesite/elizabethjkingsleyworks
At that point, use FTP/SFTP to upload this default WordPress .htaccess file into that new folder:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
note: Be sure to use a plain-text editor that will not add *any* formatting there and that will allow you to save that file with only an extension and no actual filename…and you should ultimately have something this:
/home/mydomain/public_html/ourlivesite/elizabethjkingsleyworks/.htaccess
Next extract WordPress from its download from here at www.ads-software.com and upload everything from inside the extracted “wordpress” folder to /home/mydomain/public_html/ourlivesite/elizabethjkingsleyworks/
note: You could, if you wish, just upload that entire “wordpress” folder into /home/mydomain/public_html/ourlivesite/ rather than ever making an “elizabethjkingsleyworks” folder, and then either leave that folder as it is or rename it to “elizabethjkingsleyworks” or whatever and then upload your .htaccess file into that however-named folder containing three wp- WordPress folders and other WordPress files. Then at that point, just add that new folder name to your site’s current link and your new Worpress installation will begin:
https://ourlivesite.com/elizabethjkingsleyworks/
There is more you can do to set things up in relation to your database after doing the initial uploads and prior to actually running WordPress (its installation script) for the first time, and you might or might not either want or need to look into that beforehand.
Once I’ve built the site and put in all the content, how do I go live from there?
Others here can try to answer that question for you right now, and I will know for certain about that (for at least in my own case) after I have done that for two of my own sites in possibly another week or so. However, it essentially requires something like either moving you new work into place at the expense of your current “live” installation or else re-pointing your domain to your renamed-or-not https://ourlivesite.com/elizabethjkingsleyworks/ location. Personally, all of my sites are in sub-folders in that way, and that is what I would suggest…and no, the link to your site does not then have to change to https://ourlivesite.com/elizabethjkingsleyworks/ because that matter will be addressed via /home/mydomain/public_html/.htaccess.
