How to set up staging environment when current site isn’t made with WP?

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What’s the best approach when rebuilding a website with WP when the hosted live site isn’t made with WP? Thank you in advance!

EDIT: \*hosted, not self-hosted

EDIT: I’m wondering if I should create a public\_html1 folder, install WP in it and create the site, then simply change the folder names when done. If that’s possible, are there relevant files in the live public\_html folder I would need? The current site doesn’t use database and all the files are just within public\_html. I’m just not sure if there were any necessary files in there prior to when the current website files were added. Thanks!

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