Title: Integrate wordpress with large HTML site
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Integrate wordpress with large HTML site

 *  [Niveditha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niveditha/)
 * (@niveditha)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/integrate-wordpress-with-large-html-site/)
 * Hi,
    I currently have a large HTML site with several 1000 HTML pages. Going forward
   I’d like to have wordpress. Basically i want the index.html to be the new wordpress
   theme site (which will have a different look of course). And I want to have an
   archive link on the wordpress home page that links to my old HTML pages. Is that
   possible? Can the robots see the 1000s of HTML pages if wordpress is in the root
   directory? Or must I do something else to preserve the robots crawling up my 
   HTML pages and have a wordpress index / home page. Thanks.

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 *  [Gary Pendergast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pento/)
 * (@pento)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/integrate-wordpress-with-large-html-site/#post-6846723)
 * Hi [@niveditha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niveditha/)!
 * You can absolutely do this! If you rename your `index.html` to something else(
   say, `archive.html`), you can link to that file from within your WordPress install,
   and allow WordPress’ `index.php` to take care of everything else.
 * WordPress will continue to respect your existing HTML pages – it won’t try to
   override any existing filenames, so your HTML pages will still be readable by
   your visitors, and crawl-able by robots.
 *  Thread Starter [Niveditha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niveditha/)
 * (@niveditha)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/integrate-wordpress-with-large-html-site/#post-6846845)
 * Whenever I try to access any HTML page, I get a server error. Oops that page 
   cannot be found !
 *  [Gary Pendergast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pento/)
 * (@pento)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/integrate-wordpress-with-large-html-site/#post-6846870)
 * Well, that’s not what we want.
 * Is this error coming from your web server (usually a very plain page – just black
   text on a white background, or possibly with your host’s branding on it), or 
   is it coming from WordPress (has your WordPress theme styling, with the error
   where the page content usually would be)?
 * Also, could you post a copy of your `.htaccess` file?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Gary Pendergast](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pento/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/integrate-wordpress-with-large-html-site/#post-6846870)
 * Status: not resolved

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