Title: change index.php ??
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# change index.php ??

 *  [inzanem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inzanem/)
 * (@inzanem)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-indexphp-1/)
 * Hi,
    I have installed wordpress normally, so [http://www.domain.com/](http://www.domain.com/)
   will automatically pick up index.php.
 * Thing is I already have an index.html that I would rather use for the front of
   the site.
 * Is there anything I can do within wordpress (except re-installing to different
   dir) where I can change the default page to something else, or change the name
   of index.php perhaps. ?
 * many thanks

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 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-indexphp-1/#post-1435000)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
 * you’ll want to move wordpress. index.php and index.html can’t be in the same 
   directory. WP needs index.php, and it needs to be called index.php
 *  [sfama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sfama/)
 * (@sfama)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-indexphp-1/#post-1435001)
 * Hi,
    you can add in wp-include\theme.php file in the get_home_template() function:
 * $template = locate_template(array(‘youPHPstartPage.php’, ‘index.php’));
 * Silvia

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-indexphp-1/#post-1435001)
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