{"id":8453170,"date":"2016-11-18T11:51:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/renaming-index-php\/"},"modified":"2016-11-18T11:51:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:51:23","slug":"renaming-index-php","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/renaming-index-php\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaming Index.php"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to migrate my existing html site to wordpress. I am planning to install wordpress in the same root directory using Softaculous, which includes existing html files and sub directories of my website. My question is that after installing wordpress, can I rename worpdress&#8217; index.php file to keep my existing site live until I am finished migrating it to wordpress? Will it affect the site in a way? Will I be able to access the admin section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-8453170","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/8453170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/8453170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8453170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}