diff --git a/system/public_html/default/.htaccess b/system/public_html/default/.htaccess
index f7edecd11..485a4307d 100644
--- a/system/public_html/default/.htaccess
+++ b/system/public_html/default/.htaccess
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <IfModule dir_module>
-    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
+    DirectoryIndex index.html
 </IfModule>
 AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
 AddCharset UTF-8 .html
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ AddCharset UTF-8 .html
    Header unset ETag
 </FilesMatch>
 Header always set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"
-
 RewriteEngine On
-
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.html$
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/apacheerror/
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/apacheicons/