Problems viewing index.php

  • twinpine

    (@twinpine)


    17 years ago

    Hello there,

    This is my first venture using wordpress and I am having one issue which I’m not sure if it is something I am doing wrong or if it is something to do with wordpress. I have correctly installed wordpress ok and have a holding page up (index.html) but when I try and view my wordpress index page (index.php) to see any changes I keep getting sent back to my holding page. It’s like I can never view index.php. The only way I can see index.php is if I change the index.html file to something else so that index.php becomes the default homepage.

    Has anyone encountered anything like this before? Please let me know if you need anymore info.

    Many thanks.

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    17 years ago

    you can’t expect both index.html and index.php to work simultaneously.
    index.html always takes precedence.
    you will need to rename or delete the index.html to get wordpress’ index.php to work

    or you can move wp to a folder and link to it from your index.html

    Thread Starter twinpine

    (@twinpine)

    17 years ago

    Hey thanks for getting back to me Samboll. Does that mean I should really move wordpress to a test folder while I get it all working, then move it to my main directory when it’s ready to go live. My problem is that index.html is my site’s holding page so if I get rid of it everyone will be able to see me testing my site as I build it as index.php will become the home page.

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    17 years ago

    yes that would be a good way to go – just move it to a test folder
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site

    then when ready – use same instructions to put it back

    or you may like this option when moving back
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    Thread Starter twinpine

    (@twinpine)

    17 years ago

    That’s awesome Samboll, many thanks for all your help.

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