doug123x

Thank you for the link. I’ve read it over, but my original question still remains.

I recognize the value in performing updates, but is there no risk of these breaking the site? In that regard, I am surprised that they are turned on automatically. Should I be performing these updates in a development environment and then migrating to production?

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.

I’m going to follow the code through and see what happens. Seems like it’s the wordpress engine that loads the default.htm file

Index.php code (pretty basic)

<?php
/**
* Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn’t do anything, but loads
* wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
*
* @package WordPress
*/

/**
* Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
*
* @var bool
*/
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>

This is what I had originally thought, because for example the current index.php could be renamed bob.php and it shouldn’t redirect.

Here is the site – this may help:

https://www.keystonemasonry.com/default.htm which is the same as https://www.keystonemasonry.com

and

https://www.keystonemasonry.com/index.php (wordpress)

Note the strange redirection.

If I delete default.htm – the wordpress site kicks in and life is good.

Ah, I see now.

ok – great info, I’ll do some digging.

Thank you.

ok, will look into the ht access –

Thank you for your help everyone!

Thank you for the response.

My apologies if I did not articulate this very well, but the issue I have is that:

https://www.somedomain.com/index.php for some reason redirects to https://www.somedomain.com/index.htm (default.htm)

I looked at the code in the wordpress index.php and don’t see why this is redirecting.? When I visit index.php I expected this to load the wordpress site. When I visit index.htm (which is the default), I expect the static html page to load.

Thank you for the replies guys.

I’ve already setup WordPress in the root of my web-site.

Why cannot I not do the following? (aside from the issue I am having with the index.php redirecting to the index.htm which I do not understand.)

https://www.somedomain.com/index.php(and view the wordpress site during development)
https://www.somedomain.com/index.htm(what the visitors see, until I remove it, afterwhich index.php takes over and wordpress becomes live)

I am not concerned about security (i.e., if someone purposely wanted to see the “development” site.)

Anyone? Surely this request can’t be that unique.

Just tried a permalink and it doesn’t bring up the WordPress blog.
https://www.sampledomain.com/?p=123

I don’t want the wordpress blog to load when someone hits the site – at least not now. I want to build the site & test the site using a “private” address and then when I am ready to go live, flip the switch. (which in this case is simply removing default.htm – afterwhich the wordpress site loads)

Thank you for your input.