Friendly URL Exceptions?

[PrestaToys]

I have 2 website... one is a Prestashop site and the other is a Wordpress Blog site.  I am creating a splash page to connect the 2 (as per Management's request)

 

Prestashop site is www.MySite.com

 

Wordpress site is on a Subdomain called blog.MySite.com

 

Management wants me to change my live site to Shopping.MySite.com but we do not want to risk "blowing up" our live (and making good money) site.

 

Seems the easiest thing to do is to create a subdomain for Shopping.MySite.com (pointing to www.MySite.com/index.php) and usw www.MySite.com for the Splash page.

 

Problem is...

 

We want Friendly URL's to remain turned on (looks better, links, and crawlers will still find the same pages)

 

But "index" is being rewritten to the friendly URL instead of showing www.MySite.com/index.php

 

UNder SEO's and URL's there is an "index page" but the URL rewritten field is greyed out, so I cannot change it.

 

I deleted this "index page" reference.  Turned Friendly URL's OFF and back ON, but it seems Prestashop automatically makes a Friendly URL for the index page.

 

So (hopefully that all makes sense) can anyone tell me if (and how) to create a Firendly URL Exception in the .htaccess file (I assume that's where it should be)?

 

Then current users who have our shopping site bookmarked (and crawlers) should land on our splash page.  Then they can choose between our blog site and our shopping site.

 

Monkeying around in the .htaccess file does not seem like a good idea, and I'm not even sure if that's the right thing to do.

 

Can anyone help with this?  Thank you!!!

[Simonas Invertus]

I don't think that there is a good solution.

 

If you want not to lose traffic you need to do 301 redirects, but if you do redirects you can't have  splash site.

If you have splash site it is complicated to do redirects and you still lose some traffic which come directly to the shop and do not find it. 

 

Or you can live your e-shop as it is and instead of splash site install popup-module and use the popup for the splash part.