how to change rename index.php

Don’t. You’ll break stuff, big time. Why are you asking?

I have a website where I want to change the permalink to remove /blog/ in the post this is the link

https://mpatches.com/blog/?p=1"

I have followed this

https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-get-rid-of-wordpress-from-your-wordpress-site-url/

I have to move my index.php on root folder but then index.aspx doesn’t work for the root folder and taken by index.php

so that’s why I want to rename the index.php so that index.aspx works fine for the domain and also /blog/ removal works as well for the wordpress.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

Hi, @primeaz!

I would suggest another approach:

1. Rename index.aspx to homepage.aspx
2. Create a WordPress custom theme template file containing:

<?php
/*
Template Name: My ASPX Homepage
*/
echo file_get_contents("https://www.yoursite.com/homepage.aspx");
?>

3. Create a wp page that uses My ASPX Homepage as template
4. Set that page as the static front page.

That way, your homepage will be loaded trough wordpress and will still display your aspx file.

You can read more about integrating your website with wordpress here

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website

Hope this helps.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by Vlad T. Reason: code updated

.aspx files are serverland ASP.NET scripts, much like .php files are serverland PHP scripts. The above “solution” to load/display the .aspx file will not work.

Anyway…I’m sure this can be accomplished by adding a custom web.config file in the WordPress root directory. You’ll need to get in touch with an ASP.NET developer, or perhaps you can find a solution on StackExchange.

The url has nothing to do with the index.php. Index.php is required to run. If you change or rename it you will break the site. There are 2 required files for a wordpress theme index.php and style.css. If you remove or rename either your site will fail. Don’t change the extention to .aspx wordpress uses php. If you want to change the Permalink go to settings->Permalinks. You will find options to change the link. Don’t rename files unless you know what you are doing.

I think the only way i can think of is somehow allow my root directory to listen only to index.aspx and restrict index.php so that mydomain.com works for index.aspx and not for index.php

then it will be all good. I have contacted host provider to see if this is possible.

asp and php are totally different programming languages they have nothing to do with each other. WordPress uses templates to create the site. Index.php is the fall back for all templates if they don’t exist. WordPress calls the correct templated based on the data that is being displayed. Asp isn’t used in wordpress at all.