Let's say I have an existing website and want to convert that site to drupal.
What I have done in the past is something like this :
Where my original site is www.mydomain.com, create www.mydomain.com/new, require authorization and go to work. when done, move files form www.mydomain.com/new to www.mydomain.com, presumably overwritting the original directory.
What would be the 'drupalist' way to do that? URLs to topics on this subject would be perfectly fine. thanks