How can I work on a WordPress theme already installed in the root directory?
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I have WordPress installed at the root level of a website.
I thought it would be easy enough to have a "coming soon" page called default.html
and edit the .htaccess
file as follows:
AddHandler php5-script .php DirectoryIndex default.html index.php # BEGIN WordPress # END WordPress
...so that visitors to the site are sent to the default page, and I could manually specify index.php
as my destination for testing. (This isn't a high-security job.) But index.php
is redirecting me to the default page. When I remove the DirectoryIndex
line, the index.php
file is found automatically by visitors to the site root, but... that's the page I was trying to hide.
What am I doing wrong with .htaccess
and how can I get it to behave the way I want?
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