Re: Re: How to browse to index.php OR index.html on WordPress site?

[Kent West <westk@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 2:22 AM, mlrx <mlrx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Le 23/02/2018 à 22:12, Kent West a écrit :

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Kent West <westk@xxxxxxx> wrote:

It seems I can serve index.html OR index.php, but not both at the same
time (depending on the URL entered into the web-browser's URL bar).

Surely I'm not the only person to ever want to do this? Surely this is not
that difficult of a task?

It is not.

And yet, no one's been able to tell me how to do it. Nor does Google seem to have the answer (although the flaw may be in my google-fu, not in the actual lack of an answer).
 

Just need to learn more: set-up and monitor a server is not
a birth gift but it's possible by yourself (see below).

Well, instead of becoming more of an expert than the experts I asked, I had hoped the experts I asked could tell me how to do it.

I understand that setting up/monitoring a server is not a birth gift, and I hope I haven't left that impression. If so, I apologize. On the other hand, does running a mom&pop web-site require a full-time professional career commitment?

cp /etc/wordpress/config-sitename.org /etc/wordpress/
config-beta.sitename.orgIs it the real address in your system tree ?

Depending your system, those public files should be
in /var/www/ or /srv/www or something like this.
/etc/ is reserved to all conf files.

 

This is the way Debian does it; as I understand it, this file *is* a conf file, and not a public file.

No, "sitename" is not the real address.
 

But when I go any deeper than the front page, it redirects back to
index.html, just like it did when I did the much simpler "index1.php"
method earlier. Bummer.

Commenting all rewrite rules is a good test, but it's probably better
to try this 1st:
Modify your WP conf here -> https://domain.tld/wp-admin/options-general.php
  { WordPress Address (URL), Site Address (URL) }¹
Beside of it, it can need 24-48h to complete DNS propagation around
the world.

Ha! You're a genius! You're the expert with the answer!

To sum up:

I changed my DNS settings with my domain registrar to include "beta." at the front of my domain name, so that I can browse to either sitename.org or beta.sitename.org.

I made a couple of config changes to the /etc/wordpress and /etc/apache2/sites-* dirs (documented earlier in this thread).

I went to sitename.org/wp-admin/options-general.php and added "beta." to the Wordpress URL and the site URL fields.

I added a link to index.html pointing to beta.sitename.org/index.php.

Now I can browse to index.html, and then click on the link to go to the beta site.

Thanks to you, and to all who responded!

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