Title: Bypass wordpress?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Bypass wordpress?

 *  Resolved [cangurob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cangurob/)
 * (@cangurob)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bypass-wordpress/)
 * Our site is currently running an IPB forum in an iframe inside a wordpress page,
   it’s pretty clunky.
 * I want to remove the wordpress wrapper, and just run the IPB forum.
 * I’m not completely sure of the best way of doing this. The wordpress install 
   is in the root of public_html, and the IPB installation is under /forum/
 * I thought if I simply deleted the index.html, index.php and .htaccess files from
   the root, and replaced them with an index.html containing a redirect instruction
   to /forum/ it would work, however when I do that I just get a blank page…
 * My index.html is
 *     ```
       <?php
       header("Location: /forum/");
       exit;
       ?>
       ```
   
 * My question is: is the reason this is not working that it’s not enough to just
   delete the files I did? I don’t really want to completely delete the wordpress
   install until I’m sure everything is ok, I’d prefer to bypass it if possible…
   Any suggestions for how?

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bypass-wordpress/#post-4181740)
 * When you go to your main page, check what the source code that’s being output
   is. I’ll bet that what the browser is seeing is exactly what you’ve got in your.
   html file there.
 * that’s becuase a .html file **doesn’t work with PHP**. You cannot use any PHP
   code in a standard .html or .htm file without setting up your server to behave
   differently to standard.
 * What you need to do is rename that file to `index.php` and it will work.
 *  Thread Starter [cangurob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cangurob/)
 * (@cangurob)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bypass-wordpress/#post-4181748)
 * /me slaps head. Thanks cataustic. Sometimes it’s the simple things…

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [cangurob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cangurob/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bypass-wordpress/#post-4181748)
 * Status: resolved

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