Like others I want to be able to run both index.html and index.php on a site. I want the default site.com to go to site.com/index.html and when typed into the address bar "site.com/index.php" I want this to go to "site.com/index.php" . I have the same setup on another Wordpress site that works fine but I can't replicate it on a new one.
It will default to "site.com/index.html" stripping out the "index.html" in the address bar, but if I type site.com/index.php in the address bar it reverts to site.com . It strips off the '/index.php' at the same time. Here is my htaccess file. Anything obvious? thanks~
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
The way WordPress works is that it tries to prevent duplicate URLs, thus, when you go to example.com/index.php it will (301) redirect you to example.com/.
I gues you could still have index.php and index.html by using the right order in your .htaccess (taking into consideration te redirect I mentioned):
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
Then you will have:
index.php ===> /
index.html ==> /index.html