Change index.php to blog.php

  • I’ve seen this asked but never correctly answered.

    I want to change index.php to blog.php and have it reside in the ROOT folder – Why? because I already have an index.php page for my main site.

    Why not put it in it’s own folder you ask? – because I use include files for my site and that would require changing relative paths to absolute paths.
    Example: My home page is index.php which pulls in includes/navigation.php and also calender/calendar.php.

    If my blog is in its own folder (blog), then the include files within the calendar script look like “mysite.com/blog/calendar/images/…”

    When I change index.php to blog.php, The link always goes to mysite.com/blog.php/ – notice the slash after blog.php. It’s trying to send it to another folder.

    Any help is appreciated.

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  • There are others who will have the 100% certain answer, but my 90% certain answer says “you can’t do it” [have WordPress start in blog.php]

    Unless I misunderstood you, I think you can get everything working by putting WordPress in its own folder. And having a second copy of the /includes/ folder in the root (as well as WordPress’s real copy as a subfolder of your WordPress folder). And whatever other duplicate copies of folders you require to make it all work.

    It may not be elegant, but these are read-only files (in /include/, etc.) so there are no issues with things getting out of sync. Except, of course, when you upgrade WordPress, when you have to remember to update the extra copies of the folders.

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