Question

Have a client who wants to move their WordPress.com blog over to their main domain that has a Drupal installation. If I add WordPress to a “/blog/” directory on the server, will there be any conflicts with the htaccess ie Mod Rewrites etc?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you place the WordPress files within the /blog/ directory then no, there certainly shouldn’t be any htaccess conflicts.

Update :
What berkes suggests below (ie putting WordPress and Drupal in their own separate folders side by side) would be an ideal solution if you were starting from scratch.

However, it would change the URLs of all existing content, which you probably don’t want.

One thing you could do is install them side by side and then use mod-rewrite to make example.com/blog go to the wordpress directory and anything else go to the drupal directory.
This way all existing content would stay at the existing URLs even though the drupal instalation had moved.

Note that even this solution would prevent anything which Drupal tried using the /blog path for from being visible, instead redirecting to WordPress.