Title: Index.php and index.html problems
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Index.php and index.html problems

 *  [SalesFreak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salesfreak/)
 * (@salesfreak)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-and-indexhtml-problems/)
 * I’ve read all the posts related to having an index.php and index.html hang out
   together and I haven’t found the answer I need yet.
 * Here’s the situation. I have had a WordPress site in the Root Directory for about
   six years and I’m looking to add a new service, so I need to create a Splash 
   Page that will allow me to link to two different sites. I can’t move my current
   site into it’s own directory or I will lose all the SEO and page links that I
   have built up over the years.
 * What’s the solution, since you can’t put an index.html into the WordPress root
   directory and then link to the index.php, which would seem like the easiest solution.
   A few people mentioned the .htaccess as an option in some of the forums I read,
   but I haven’t been able to make that solution work.
 * I’ve seen a number of other people who have had this issue as well.

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-and-indexhtml-problems/)
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