Crawl issues/ .htacess issues

[automart]

My site is getting crawl errors inside of google webmaster tools. Google believe a lot of my links point to index.html when they really do not. That is not the problem though, its that google can't give credit for those links to any of my pages. I know I need to create a rule in the .htacess but the last time I did it I got an error. I need some assistance on how to go about doing this, I really don't want to lose the weight of my links.

Thanks

[Julich]

Could you please give some more details?

[saibose]

Sean,

Here are some resources that I have for you

http://www.webforgers.net/mod-rewrite/mod-rewrite-syntax.php

http://roshanbh.com.np/2008/03/url-rewriting-examples-htaccess.html

Hope they help you in understanding how to go about .htaccess.

As far as I understand, you are facing the issue since you pointed yourinterlinking URLs to your .index.html page rather than your absolute URLs.

[StalkerB]

Are you asking for the code to redirect index.html to / ?

This should work (put the whole thing in your .htaccess and replace example with your site)

RewriteEngine On Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.html
RewriteRule ^(.)index.html$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

However, you should also change your internal links to point to the redirected version (/) and not /index.html

[automart]

My site was done in wordpress so do I need to do anything differently. Also this code will redirect http://www.mysite.com/index.html to http://www.mysite.com?

Thanks a lot

[StalkerB]

WordPress does it automatically if you've got your permalinks set up.

WordPress .htaccess should look like this:

BEGIN WordPress

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule>

END WordPress

And it should be .php not .html anyway in WP

Is WMT finding links to .html pages from pages on your site or from external links?