QUESTION Renaming a page slug "index"?

[Palmer]

Hey guys,

I need to edit some content on the homepage of a website, I've made the template "home-template.php" etc which I'm using which is fine, but everytime I try to rename the page to "index" it goes to "index-1".

I'm using .htm for this site (fancy urls/htaccess) is working fine. That's usually because there's already an index.htm?

I've deleted the existing static index.htm. All that's left is the index.php, but if I delete that the site breaks. I think it's because of the .php?

Any ideas much appreciated!
Thanks,
Chris

[shawn_a]

There is a page called index by default, you need to edit that one.

[Palmer]

The index.php in the route? Thanks.

[shawn_a]

not index.php
the slug named index