Title: Having basic html page show up outside WP
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Having basic html page show up outside WP

 *  [Nancy Rector](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nanrector/)
 * (@nanrector)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-basic-html-page-show-up-outside-wp/)
 * I have a wordpress site obviously. When I use Dreamweaver to create a folder 
   and a page inside to show seperate from my wordpress site it will tries to show
   the page within the wordpress framework and says ‘file not found’. Is there a
   trick to getting a self-created html page to show up once you have WP installed?
   I made sure that there is no WP folder that has the same name.
 * Thanks!
    Nancy

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 *  [Darin Kotter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dkotter/)
 * (@dkotter)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-basic-html-page-show-up-outside-wp/#post-2570574)
 * There’s no trick as far as I know. I have multiple sites that have other basic
   pages outside WordPress, or complete systems outside WordPress and they work 
   fine. WordPress tries and redirects traffic to any similar URL’s. So that’s what
   I would look for, to see if the folder and file names you are using are similar
   to anything you have on WordPress. It doesn’t even have to be exactly the same,
   just similar. This is usually nice, since it helps keep traffic for people that
   type the URL wrong, but it makes it hard to have separate pages.
 * You can also try adding some custom code to your .htaccess file, to disallow 
   any redirects for your static directory. I’m not an expert with .htaccess though,
   but [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6428448/rewriterule-exception-for-static-page-outside-wordpress)
   might be of help.
 *  Thread Starter [Nancy Rector](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nanrector/)
 * (@nanrector)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-basic-html-page-show-up-outside-wp/#post-2570577)
 * Thanks for the reply. I knew wordpress did the redirect thing so I was testing
   a few funky folder names just to be sure but still no luck. I know I’ve done 
   it on other sites but its not working on this one. I will check the htaccess 
   file thing. Appreciate the info!
 * Nancy
 *  Thread Starter [Nancy Rector](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nanrector/)
 * (@nanrector)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-basic-html-page-show-up-outside-wp/#post-2570596)
 * Worked like a charm. Thanks again!

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 * Last reply from: [Nancy Rector](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nanrector/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/having-basic-html-page-show-up-outside-wp/#post-2570596)
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