Title: Splash Screen
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Splash Screen

 *  [tommytomato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommytomato/)
 * (@tommytomato)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/splash-screen/)
 * Ok people here is a question.
 * I run a linux box and in my httpd config I have some thing like this in there
   so my splash screen loads first.
 * DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
 * Now if I place the index.html in the directory and surf my site, I click on of
   my links to one of my pages I created in WP and it brings me back to the Splash
   screen ?
 * any idea to why its doing this and why its not showing me the correct page.
 * TT

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/splash-screen/#post-402203)
 * You cannot have two index files in the same directory. That confuses WP 🙂
 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/splash-screen/#post-402216)
 * So you’ve left index.php as the WP index and you’ve created your OWN index.html??
 * If that is the case, you’re telling Apache that it should first look for an index.
   html and use that if it finds it, if not, it should search for index.php and 
   so on.
 * If you have BOTH files in the same directory, Apache will always find the one
   listed first. It will ignore the second.
 * So a slight correction to moshu’s comment, there really isn’t confusion on WP’s
   part, just the way Apache is behaving, because you asked it to..:)
 * Regards
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/splash-screen/#post-402220)
 * Any correction is welcome 🙂 – since I am not a technical person. Although I 
   know (without understanding the technical details) that WP is using the index
   file to “build” all kind of internal links (even when the “index.php” is NOT 
   visible in the URI), so if it finds the index.html instead of index.php… a lot
   of things will be broken. Basically, I was thinking about this when I said “WP
   will be confused”.
 * Summa summarum: remove the index.html 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [tommytomato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommytomato/)
 * (@tommytomato)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/splash-screen/#post-402322)
 * Yes I have the index.html that loads first when you surf the domain name, then
   it bumps over to the index.php file both in the same directory. So I take there’s
   not anyway in fixing it, Dont spose Apache would like a default.html instead ?
 * TT
 *  Thread Starter [tommytomato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommytomato/)
 * (@tommytomato)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/splash-screen/#post-402323)
 * Well that didn’t work
 * TT
 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/splash-screen/#post-402335)
 * The file name themselves have no significance to Apache, but rather the order
   in which they are listed does matter.
 * The basic point is that you can only have one “index” file per directory. Whether
   you call it index.htm, default.asp, index.jsp, index.php, localhost.asp, index.
   html, foobar.me doesn’t matter..which ever exists (and configured in Apache) 
   is found and used.
 * So if you want a splash screen (very old world BTW) you’d want to put the index.
   html in the / (public_html) directory and your blog would be in a subfolder, 
   this will work fine.
 * Regards

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/splash-screen/#post-402335)
 * Status: not resolved

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