I put up a quick splash page with index.php and added a link in that splash page to index2.php and when I go to index2.php, I get a “page not found” error. Getting rid of the splash is not an option right now. Is there anything I can do to get this to work?
index2.php in root causing 404 error
Try to just use a index.html file and use
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="5; URL=http://example.com/wp-content/themes/your_theme/index.php">in your
<head>section.Let’s see if the easy stuff works.
edit: to be on the save side, always display a link to the index.php file with some descriptive text like “if your browser doesn’t redirect you automatically, please click here“
I suggest you to create a custom page and name it home.php to load it first and link it where you want.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy