Title: testing wordpress site while index.html exists
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# testing wordpress site while index.html exists

 *  [colletteoneill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/colletteoneill/)
 * (@colletteoneill)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/testing-wordpress-site-while-indexhtml-exists/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henkholland/)
 * (@henkholland)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/testing-wordpress-site-while-indexhtml-exists/#post-1287696)
 * 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](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](http://www.mysite.com/index.php)
   then of course.

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