testing wordpress site while index.html exists

  • colletteoneill

    (@colletteoneill)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    Hi guys

    I have installed WP successfully and have begun to build me new site in the same directory as my old site. Is there any way of viewing the index.php for testing, but without removing the old index.html for the existing site?

    many thanks in advance
    kind regards
    Collette

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  • henkholland

    (@henkholland)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    Supposing you installed wp in its own directory like “wordpress” you could for the time being, leave (or put) ‘index.php’ also in that directory and access your wp site through www.mysite.com/wordpress When your done developing, just read this:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory meaning to change some settings and move your índex.php’ to the root of the server , outside of the directory ‘wordpress’ so that it can be accessed through http://www.mysite.com

    Another way could be to change the htaccess (I think) so that index.html is first accessed before index.php
    Use the search for this; I do not know the details for that.
    You would access your wp site through http://www.mysite.com/index.php then of course.

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