Title: WordPress Development Environment
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress Development Environment

 *  Resolved [doug123x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doug123x/)
 * (@doug123x)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-development-environment/)
 * Hi There –
 * I’ve successfully installed wordpress on my site, but while I am populating the
   pages and so forth, I uploaded a “coming soon” default.htm, with the hopes of
   previewing the site through the index.php (and keeping the two seperate, until
   I remove the default.htm, which would then turn control over to wordpress). However,
   WordPress (index.php) is redirecting to the default.htm. If I remove the default.
   htm, the WordPress site works, but this defeats the purpose. I don’t want potential
   clients seeing the work in progress until it is completed.
 * [http://www.sampledomain.com/default.htm](http://www.sampledomain.com/default.htm)(
   interm “coming soon” message)
    [http://www.sampledomain/com/index.php](http://www.sampledomain/com/index.php)(
   wordpress redirector)
 * Is this approach correct? Any input would be appreciated.

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 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-development-environment/page/2/#post-1784488)
 * > It’s probably your server settings, actually.
   > Servers are set up to render pages in an order. Index.html, then home.html 
   > etc etc. Yours probably has default.htm before index.php, and either way, you
   > can’t have TWO index files in the same folder without having issues.
   > Shortest answer: On some servers, you can’t have BOTH index.php and default.
   > htm in the same folder.
 * That is why I suggested to install in a folder and keep your under construction
   page in root.
 * After all just takes few minutes to move wordpress from folder to root.
 *  Thread Starter [doug123x](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doug123x/)
 * (@doug123x)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-development-environment/page/2/#post-1784489)
 * I should have done this much earlier on – however – renaming index.php to bob.
   php causes the wordpress site to appear and the default.htm to be left alone 
   happily.
 * I think this confirms the post provided by govpatel.
 * Thank you.
 *  [scvbruce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scvbruce/)
 * (@scvbruce)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-development-environment/page/2/#post-1784598)
 * My server says:
 * > This is the order of precedence for the default files on your Linux Standard
   > account:
   >  1.default.html 2.default.htm 3.index.php 4.index.shtml 5.index.html
   > 6.index.htm 7.home.html 8.home.htm 9.index.php5 10.welcome.html 11.welcome.
   > htm
 * But, like some other folks, when I enter the domain name followed by index.php,
   it takes me to default.htm.
    I was able to change index.php to myindex.php and
   the it allows me to go to the WordPress php page.

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