I am trying to prevent index.php from redirecting to a file index.html which I also have in the home directory. I want index.html to remain there for a few days until the WordPress site is finished, being the page that visitors will see, and I'd access the new installation by adding index.php to the url; but WordPress redirects index.php to index.html meaning that I can only view the pages and posts and not the home page. I have tried putting remove_filter('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical'); into the functions.php file but it doesn't work.

I am trying to prevent index.php from redirecting to a file index.html which I also have in the home directory. I want index.html to remain there for a few days until the WordPress site is finished, being the page that visitors will see, and I'd access the new installation by adding index.php to the url; but WordPress redirects index.php to index.html meaning that I can only view the pages and posts and not the home page. I have tried putting remove_filter('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical'); into the functions.php file but it doesn't work.

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Try adding this to your .htaccess file:

RewriteRule ^index\.htm$ index.php [NC,R]

SOURCE: http://css-tricks/377-how-to-redirect-indexhtml-to-indexphp/

Found the problem - you have to access index.php/ not just index.php