Title: replace default inded.php with home.php
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# replace default inded.php with home.php

 *  [Ameet Agarwal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ameetagarwal/)
 * (@ameetagarwal)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-default-indedphp-with-homephp/)
 * I am installing a new wp setup and want to change the default index.php to home.
   php
    The reason is that i already have an existing setup using customized PHP
   files (not WordPress, just regular php files) which also uses a index.php file.
   I want to install and configure WordPress parallel to the existing website until
   i can finally go live. I DO NOT want to install the wp files in a separate folder.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-default-indedphp-with-homephp/#post-4382487)
 * > I DO NOT want to install the wp files in a separate folder
 * Why? WordPress will not function without that index.php in its root folder.
 *  Thread Starter [Ameet Agarwal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ameetagarwal/)
 * (@ameetagarwal)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-default-indedphp-with-homephp/#post-4382678)
 * I already have a live working site using php pages that has a index.php
    I want
   the existing site to continue working till I shift completely to WordPress. Also
   there are some constrains while using some themes and plugins when the WP site
   is installed in a separate folder.

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## Tags

 * [home.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/home-php/)
 * [index.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/index-php/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Ameet Agarwal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ameetagarwal/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-default-indedphp-with-homephp/#post-4382678)
 * Status: not resolved

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