Title: Develop alongside index.htm
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Develop alongside index.htm

 *  Resolved [solutionsphp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solutionsphp/)
 * (@solutionsphp)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/develop-alongside-indexhtm/)
 * When setting up a new site in the past, I used to post an index.htm file in the
   root directory with a “coming soon” notice, then develop the WP site in the same
   directory, accessing files by appending index.php to the URLs.
 * With one of the recent WP releases, this stopped working. All URLs redirect to
   the root, stripping index.php from the URL.
 * Where is this redirection happening? Is there something I can edit to get that
   staging capability back?

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 *  Thread Starter [solutionsphp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solutionsphp/)
 * (@solutionsphp)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/develop-alongside-indexhtm/#post-1004209)
 * Fixed!
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/232763?replies=9#post-951409](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/232763?replies=9#post-951409)

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## Tags

 * [develop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/develop/)
 * [index](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/index/)
 * [staging](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/staging/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/develop-alongside-indexhtm/#post-1004209)
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