Normally, if you have a index.html file this will always load before the index.php file.
I thought the same but it’s directly loading the index.php file. So i think it might be the .htaccess but have no idea how to change it.
What is in your htaccess file ?
It should look like this :
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Are you sure its not an error in your html file that redirects already to index.php ?
Yes, that is exactly what my .htaccess file looks like, and here is what i have as index.html, which is quite nothing so far, so it shouldn’t be a problem
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
some style here
</style>
</head>
<div class="main">
<input id="btn" type="button" value="enter" onclick="window.location='/index.php';">
</div>
</html>
Oh, now i understand better.
The problem is that you won’t be able to see the index.php page as long as you have the .html page there.
I don’t really know how to “fix” this.
You should actually be able to access the index.php using this URL
index.php?preview=true while keeping your index.html at the site root.
But I guess the better way to go however would be to create a static front page : http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
Thanks @curlybracket.
I already had static front page. The idea of the index.html was just to navigate the user to whatever site he will prefer( different languages).
But i fix my problem with the most ineffective way.
Have just made a new folder on the server where i moved the WP instance (to be honest – i migrated it:) ) and then put the index.html in the root folder. Now the url to the actual site is a bit like: http://www.site.com/wp but as far as my knowledge goes that’s all i can do : ) and it works : )
I’ll close this one as resolved.
PS: And thank you again for the support.
