Keep old website running while configuring a new website

Question

I have my website and I want it to be online for customers.

In the mean time I want to upload wordpress to the same domain and start configuring it, but without anyone seeing that.

My website has a simple structure (index.php, about.php, contact.php) and if I upload new WP it will overwrite my old index.php.

Is there anyway I can make it work? Sb goes www.mywebsite.com and is being redirected for example on www.mywebsite.com/old/index.php?

And only from my IP (static) I have normal access to www.mywebsite.com to get the configuration done?

possible duplicate of [.htaccess redirect to all IP's but mine](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8985502/htaccess-redirect-to-all-ips-but-mine) — user1251007, Nov 28 '14 at 13:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 28 '14 at 14:33

(Assuming your using apache)

Use a new VirtualHost (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/vhosts/examples.html)

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /www/example1
ServerName www.example.com

# Other directives here

</VirtualHost>

if you want both to be assiible from the same domain at the same time, you will need either a subdomain or a change of port, Both are doable with the above block of code.

You will need to either reload or restart apache for the changes to take place

Keep old website running while configuring a new website

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