As @MarkKaplun suggests, it would be preferable to store this non-WordPress file in a different area of the filesystem altogether and rewrite the URL in .htaccess
. Instead of mimicking the WordPress URL in the physical directory structure – which will likely only cause you (more) problems (not least that you would need to override the WordPress front-controller).
For example, instead of saving your non-WordPress page at /city/pricing/index.php
, save it at /non-wordress/city-pricing.php
(for example) or /non-wordress/city/pricing/index.php
(if it helps, in development, to copy the path structure – but this makes no difference to the resulting URL, since this directory structure is completely hidden from the end user).
Then in .htaccess
before the WordPress front-controller (ie. before the # BEGIN WordPress
section) you can do something like:
RewriteRule ^city/pricing/$ /non-wordpress/city-pricing.php [L]
This internally rewrites /city/pricing/
to /non-wordpress/city-pricing.php
– this is entirely hidden from the end user.
But stress, this must go before the WordPress front-controller, otherwise you’ll simply get a 404.