Rename index.php and include in header links (Pages in WordPress Admin)

Rename news.php back to index.php and undoing the changes you made to the .htaccess file first. Then try explaining what it is that you’re trying to achieve.

I wanted the blog to be news.php and I wanted the home link on the header links to be the main page of the website. Is that possible?

Your home page seems to be currently displaying your latest posts. Is that what you want? If “yes”, do you simply want to display posts from your News category in a page called Blog?

My https://www.giantmango.com/home is a page in “Pages” in WordPress Admin.

https://www.giantmango.com/index.php, which is the blog and is not visible because I have a https://www.giantmango.com/index.html temporary file.

I would like the blog (index.php) to be the “News” link in https://www.giantmango.com/home.

Create & publish a page called News. Set this as your main posts page in Settings -> Reading.

esmi,

Thank you so much for your help.

I did as you recommended, but the “News” link in the header pointed to a blank page and not the index.php (main posts page). So I updated the permalink for the “New” page to https://www.giantmango.com/news/index_php (it won`t take index.php) and got it to work. I have a feeling that it cannot find a file so it just directs it to https://www.giantmango.com/news/index.php.

How would I be able to point
https://www.giantmango.com/index.php or https://www.giantmango.com/index.html to point to https://www.giantmango.com/news/home?