Intro then wordpress

i’m having trouble finding a way to do this.

I’ve done the .htaccess file way and the site redirect way.

“DirectoryIndex intro.html index.php”

but i get an ugly loop back to the intro whenever i type the index.php as a link it goes back to the “root”- intro.html instead of the index.php.

so it just loops from the intro.. to the intro..

i cant add a redirect for mysite.com/ to mysite.com/intro.html because then anytime i load a link of the index.php it loads the intro instead of the site.

is there a way to load the intro then the index.php of wordpress properly? within the same root?