Moving existing blog to new url

[mccormicky]

I finished putting all the content from my old blog into my new WP blog.
I decided to install the blog into a new folder on my server because of database problems and not wanting to overwrite my old blog files.
Can I can delete the old folder and then rename the new one to the old name?
Or will this break my connection to the database?
When I was doing the install my host asked me what folder I wanted to install to--now I'm thinking I messed up. I should have just moved the old blog to a different folder and installed the WP to that folder. But it's too late now because I am not doing all that work over. It was a year's worth of posts.
And now I am thinking about moving the rest of my site's content to the WP blog. I should've installed to my root in that case.
Is there a way to rescue this mess? Or am I overreacting?

[ses5909]

First question, do you plan on keeping your old blog up in any form?

[mccormicky]

I was thinking of deleting it...is that a bad idea? I have comments that need to be moved but I feel weird pasting them in since wp will think they are from me.

[ses5909]

You can put the comments in through phpmyadmin if you want. There is no harm in renaming your old folder from "blog" for example to old-blog and then rename your wp install to blog.

One thing you will need to consider though is with using worpress, your url's for your old blog probably won't work on your new blog because of the different structure. You would need to use 301 redirects to redirect to the same blog entry in wordpress. Unless of course you don't care about all of that stuff :p