I have a website that is shared hosted. I want to install Umbraco to the live site, to have it there in the background, and then I will begin hooking up the content to Umbraco.
What is best practice here? If I install Umbraco at the www root of my site, will it delete existing folders at the root, or will it just add Umbraco folders alongside the exiting ones? Or should I put Umbraco in a subfolder on my site?
Don't put umbraco in a subfolder, that currently won't work. You can safely install umbraco at the root, it won't affect the current folders (unless they have the same name or files in that folder have the same name). Also to check: does the shared host allow full trust? If not, then the current release won't help you, you'll have to wait for a next release (think it may be 4.1 beta 2) that'll support umbraco to run in medium trust.
Installing Umbraco to my working live site
I have a website that is shared hosted. I want to install Umbraco to the live site, to have it there in the background, and then I will begin hooking up the content to Umbraco.
What is best practice here? If I install Umbraco at the www root of my site, will it delete existing folders at the root, or will it just add Umbraco folders alongside the exiting ones? Or should I put Umbraco in a subfolder on my site?
Don't put umbraco in a subfolder, that currently won't work. You can safely install umbraco at the root, it won't affect the current folders (unless they have the same name or files in that folder have the same name). Also to check: does the shared host allow full trust? If not, then the current release won't help you, you'll have to wait for a next release (think it may be 4.1 beta 2) that'll support umbraco to run in medium trust.
Cheers,
/Dirk
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