I have WordPress installed at the root level of a website.I thought it would be easy enough to have a coming soon page called default.html and edit the .htaccess file as follows:AddHandler php5-script .phpDirectoryIndex default.html index.php# BEGIN WordPress# END WordPress...so that visitors to the site are sent to the default page, and I could manually specify index.php as my destination for testing. (This isn't a high-security job.) But index.php is redirecting me to the default page. When I remove the DirectoryIndex line, the index.php file is found automatically by visitors to the site root, but... that's the page I was trying to hide. What am I doing wrong with .htaccess and how can I get it to behave the way I want?
How can I work on a WordPress theme already installed in the root directory?
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