WP Index page question
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I'm guessing if the password is applied to the entire directory, then it's going to block the index page as well.
When I'm faced with the situation that you're in, I generally install WP in a subdirectory and then create a static HTML splash page in the root directory. Then when I'm ready to launch the site I delete the splash page files and move the WP installation into the root. It sounds tricky but actually it's pretty darn easy once you do it a couple of times.
Check out http://codex.wordpress.org/Movin…, specially the section entitled "When Your Domain Name or URLs Change." There's a script that they link to in that article which you can run and it updates everything in your database for you. After that you just need to update 1 or 2 lines in the .htaccess file and then move all of the files over to the root.
As others have mentioned there are probably plugins out there you can employ instead, but this is the way I've always done it because I don't like messing with plugins if I don't really need to.
Good luck!