Title: Update overwrote index.php
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Update overwrote index.php

 *  [thomasareed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasareed/)
 * (@thomasareed)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-overwrote-indexphp/)
 * I recently updated WordPress, using the automatic update option, and just discovered
   that my index.php page had been overwritten! My WordPress blog is on a separate
   page (news.php), and my index.php page was not managed through WordPress. Is 
   this normal after an update? Are there other files that might get overwritten
   as well?

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 *  Thread Starter [thomasareed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasareed/)
 * (@thomasareed)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-overwrote-indexphp/#post-2515992)
 * Is this not something that anyone else has ever experienced?
 *  [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/)
 * (@fonglh)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-overwrote-indexphp/#post-2515993)
 * Files which have changed between your existing installation and the new one will
   be overwritten.
 * index.php is a WordPress file so it’s normal that it’s replaced with the proper
   version when updated.
 * If you don’t want your WordPress install to be your landing site, install it 
   in a subdirectory and link to it from your main page.
 *  Thread Starter [thomasareed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasareed/)
 * (@thomasareed)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-overwrote-indexphp/#post-2515998)
 * It doesn’t seem that that ought to be the case, but I suppose one could argue
   that I’m using it incorrectly by having the base address for my blog be a news.
   php page, rather than a news/ subdirectory. I suppose I’ll just have to accept
   that I have to either replace the index.php file with my own file after every
   update or move the WordPress stuff into a subdirectory. (Any pointers to instructions
   on doing the latter?)

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 * Last reply from: [thomasareed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasareed/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-overwrote-indexphp/#post-2515998)
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