That makes sense. I'll try that. Thanks for your suggestions.
I hope to slowly get nudged towards "Evrika!"
I will place again the old WP folders exactly where they were relative to the root before, the domain name is the same, well, except this time it's shared hosting. There is currently a fresh WP install there. I'll remove it for the purposes of this try.
( Will all my previously installed plugins work, will they act as if they were installed from their wordpress.org library ? )
(1)It used to be public_html/WP/
wich to the public looks like
(1b) http://www.philuxphoto.ca/WP/
(2)New location will be public_html/philuxphoto.ca/WP/
From the outside it will still look like
(2b)www.philuxphoto.ca/WP/
The root domain ( don't know if that's the proper name ) is http://www.vrcalgary.com
I am worried about how the WP old install will understand the nested directory structure (2).
Once my database is uploaded, with a clean user and pass, I guess I need to do some adjustments in php_config to point to it. DB location is not the same as it used to be ( external vs local hosted )
Encrypting passwords, keys, very exciting. Sure learning new stuff.
I'd rather populate and redesign my website, but will get to it.