Drupal rendered page for directory root, followed by static pages?

Question

I have a directory that I want to load through the Drupal system, which of course is fine with clean URLS:

/my-dynamic-page/

However at this directory I then want to serve static pages

/my-dynamic-page/static1

When I add a folder for /my-dynamic-page/ to the server, this now bypasses the Drupal system. While the static pages now work, when you try and load /my-dynamic-page you get a Forbidden error. This is because the Drupal system has been bypassed (there is a physical folder now) so the system looks for an index file.

How do I overcome this?

Answer 1

Add your own .htaccess file under the my-dynamic-page and my-dynamic-page/static1 with only this in it:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm

Answer 2

Thanks to J.Reynolds whose answer pointed me in the right direction to use DirectoryIndex.

In the dynamic directory I created a .htaccess with the following:

DirectoryIndex index.php /index.php

So it looks for a local index.php first, if not then goes to the root PHP index file.