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I want to move our current website from www.xyz.com to oldsite.xyz.com, so that I can stick a "coming soon" page in it's place.

The old site runs on Drupal, which I know nothing about. Am I right in thinking that I need to do the following:

  • log in to cPanel (which I've never used before)
  • manually create a new folder called 'oldsite'
  • move everything from 'www' folder to 'oldsite' folder
  • put the new html file in 'www'
  • add DNS entry for 'oldsite' subdomain

Should I do anything else? Will internal links still work? What are we supposed to do with the public_html folder?

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  • On a side note, be aware that having the old site online can open you up to duplicate content penalties with Google. You may want to use your robots.txt file to block the directory. I would at least add a canonical tag to old pages to point to new pages.
    – user59542
    Commented Jan 14, 2016 at 14:00

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This will vary depending on the Cpanel License, if its not a WHM unlimited license then these are the steps you need to take:

  1. Login to Cpanel
  2. Click sub domains under category 'domains'
  3. Add a sub domain oldsite with root of /oldsite/
  4. Copy all /public_html/ or www depending on how cpanel was setup to oldsite
  5. If the domain already has the name servers set to that of the cpanel hosting then there's no additional steps, if you use the registrar name servers and manually point to @ records then you need to add the ARecord of oldsite to point to the Cpanel IP Address.
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  • Thanks so much for your help, I will try this out in the morning.
    – marflar
    Commented Jul 31, 2013 at 22:29

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