Title: index.php automatically being generated?????
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# index.php automatically being generated?????
* [bmoore2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmoore2/)
* (@bmoore2)
* [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-automatically-being-generated/)
* Hi,
* I am having a very strange problem occuring with my wordpress site (www.norfolkutility.
com). I have built my own custom theme named Norfolk where I have both an index.
php and home.php file. Obviously the home.php file is what I want to be brought
up when users type in the url of my site and for a while it was working fine.
However, recently when I went to my site to take a look at it I got a strange
page that was not either home.php or my index.php files in the root of the theme
folder. Upon searching for this mysterious file I found it at the root of the
wordpress site itself at the same level as wp-content, wp-includes etc. It was
an index.php file which I had never created or wanted. I deleted it and everything
was fine (my home.php file was now back to being brought up when users typed
in the url). A few days later I went to the site again and the file was right
back where I had previously deleted it. Anyone have a clue as to what is going
on????????????
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* [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
* (@rvoodoo)
* [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-automatically-being-generated/#post-2390585)
* What doe sthe file look like?
* WordPress has, and requires, an index.php file at the root of the site
* The entirety of the content is below. However, a WP would not function without
it…. which makes your situation quite peculiar
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* Thread Starter [bmoore2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmoore2/)
* (@bmoore2)
* [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-automatically-being-generated/#post-2390601)
* I apologize it is actually an html file -> index.html -> I deleted and then restored
it to take a look at its properties and contents.
It says it is being created
in the early morning when I certainly was not working on it then. I am going
to check to see if it is something scheduled with my backups or something else
related. But any other info you can give me would be helpful thank you. Contents:
*
Norfolk Utility Truck Service Thank you for visiting Norfolk Utility Truck Service.
* [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
* (@rvoodoo)
* [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-automatically-being-generated/#post-2390731)
* Yup, I have no idea where something like that would come from!
* Is your hosting service somehow auto-generating placeholder files for you?
* Thread Starter [bmoore2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmoore2/)
* (@bmoore2)
* [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-automatically-being-generated/#post-2390897)
* Well I believe I know what the problem was. I was on the right track with checking
my backups. My backups were set to sychronization for this directory, so it was
copying back any files in the destination back to the source, even if I deleted
it from the source.
* [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
* (@rvoodoo)
* [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indexphp-automatically-being-generated/#post-2390915)
* Yup, that would definitely be a problem!
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