Redirect question

[seoug_2005]

I would like to redirect  http://example.com/index.html to  http://www.example.com/

Is the code below correct ?

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}^example.comRewriteRule (.*)

http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index.html\ HTTP/

RewriteRule ^index.html$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]

[rasmusbang]

The first portion of your code seems correct, although the line breaks are a bit off in the post? We have a similar approach for forwarding non-www to www-pages.

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

I've google a bit and found the following code:

All in all, I would say your .htaccess code should be:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]  
RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301] 
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Best way to get an answer? Try uploading the .htaccess code and see if it works - if not, take it down again and correct the code. However the above should work I should think.

-Rasmus

[RobertFisher]

Atul, I think the way Rasmus has it here is correct. The other day I came across a tool for 301's that will write for you.  FULL Disclosure is I have not used it yet. If you want to check it out, the site is

http://seo-website-designer.com/HtAccess-301-Redirect-Generator

Might be worth a try.

[seoug_2005]

Thanks Rasmus Olesan.

[seoug_2005]

Many Many Thanks Robert for the useful link.

I tried the tool but it didn't generated the code as stated above. Have i missed something ?

[RobertFisher]

I would go with the code the way Rasmus has laid it out for you. I will check out the tool and let youknow.