Redirect index.php to /

[Dave Hawley]

After a looooooong time of asking the question, searching and trying MANY different ways, I finally have a method that permantly redirects http://www.domain.com/forum/index.php to http://www.domain.com/forum/


RewriteEngine on
# index.php to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]


Now, if I could only find out how to send default.htm to / Any ideas? I have tried all the usual suspects to no avail.

[WebSavvy]

In .htaccess add:
redirect 301 /default.htm http://www.domain.com/
Replace domain.com with your real domain.

HTH :)

[Dave Hawley]

Thanks, but that's not it. I have 3 main pages that end with /default.htm (eg http://www.domain.com/page/default.htm) and I need them redirected to http://www.domain.com/page/

redirect 301 page/default.htm http://www.domain.com/page/

Doesn't work.

[WebSavvy]

Dave, that's because you need to add the forward slash to it. :)

Try this:
redirect 301 /page/default.htm http://www.domain.com/page/
Anytime it's a folder being redirected from root, it needs a forward slash. Same with a page too.

Try it and let me know. OK?

[Dave Hawley]

My bad, that's was a typo. I have tried that way, and many others, but it causes an endless loop.

I have even tried modifying the .php one below to default & .htm etc but still no go.

RewriteEngine on
# index.php to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

[WebSavvy]

OK, well ... right now I'm giving advice under the handicap of a migraine ... so ... I'll look at this tomorrow when my head is better. OK?

We have three other folks in here with lots of .htaccess/mod_rewrite/redirect knowledge & experience too, so maybe they'll also reply?

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g1smd
ArmenT
chrishirst

[delpino]

I had the same problem and I am considering getting rid of index.php altogether and rename it to something like main.php or home.php. This plus the standard 301 redirect would avoid the loop.

[ArmenT]

RewriteRule ^/page/default.htm /page/ [R=301,L]

That ought to do it.

[Dave Hawley]

Thanks Armen. Unfortunately it didn't do anything :(

[WebSavvy]

Dave, maybe try this and see?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^page/default.htm$ /page/ [L]

[WebSavvy]

Are you on a UNIX server with Apache, btw? Or is it a Windows server?

[Dave Hawley]

Yeah sorry, I should have stated UNIX with Apache.

Thanks Sav but that one caused an "Internal Server Error".

As the one below does work for index.php to / Perhaps it can be modified to suit? I tried the obvious with no luck.

RewriteEngine on
# index.php to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

[WebSavvy]

Yeah, I posted it wrong, Dave. I'm still under heavy headache. Should be gone by tomorrow. I'll have a look through some of my code snippets in my library and see if there's something there that might help.

Between all of us, I'm sure we'll come up with something that'll work.

[Dave Hawley]

Thanks Savvy. My 'trial and error' methods have all failed :(

[g1smd]

Have you tried this?

RewriteEngine on
# default.htm to /
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*default\.htm\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)default.htm$ /$1 [R=301,L]

Sorry, not in a position to test it out right now...

[Dave Hawley]

Woooohoooo! g1smd, you are the man :cheers: