How do you create a 301 redirect for www.mysite..com/index.html in htaccess.

[PerriCline]

I understand that it is possible to create a 301 redirect for www.mysite..com/index.html to www.mysite.com. (as well as subdirectories.)  How is this accomplished?  My hosting company says that setting this up in htaccess will  cause "Apache to geti into an infinite loop and the page won’t load."  I have read on the forum that this is possible.  Any help would be greatly appreaciated.

THanks. Perri

[davebrown1975]

Firstly make sure you have no on-site references to index.html else you'll be distilling your link juice. Ensure all references to you home page are www.mysite.com/

For the redirect try the following:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index.html$ http://www.mysite.com/ [R=301,L]

[PerriCline]

Unfortunately we have off-site links that point to directory/index.html

[davebrown1975]