title: How to access index.php page when index.html has priority
body: <p>I have a wordpress site that is using an <strong>index.php</strong> page.</p>
  
  <p>Now the website is not live yet, so I added an <strong>index.html</strong> page for a temp page - So that users will not see the index.php page, yet.</p>
  
  <p>But now i cannot access my index.php file when visiting: <a href="http://mysite.com/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://mysite.com/index.php</a> - It redirects me straight to <a href="http://mysite.com" rel="nofollow">http://mysite.com</a>, which serves the index.html page</p>
  
  <p>How can I view my index.php page?</p>
  
  <p>NOTE: my htaccess file has the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I remove this, the default page people see is the index.php, which I don't want them to see. Only I want to be able to view the index.php file</p>
  
  <p>thank you</p>