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The only real adjustment is to \ the .(dot) to match a litteral .(dot) instead of 'any character except the end of a line'

RewriteRule ^index\.html$ / [R=301,L]

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^website.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.website.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

However, it does not redirect www.website.com/index.php to www.website.com/ ... can anyone say what I need to add to make that happen?

Any help would be really appreciated.

I had tested the code & it doesn't work - even with the mod you kindly suggested. What happens is that the redirection times out. When I did a header check it shows that the redirection is going into an endless loop as below:

SEO Consultants Directory Check Server Headers - Single URI Results
Current Date and Time: 2005-06-27T03:49:10-0800
User IP Address:

#1 Server Response: http://www.example.com/index.htm
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:49:10 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.example.com/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Redirect Target: http://www.example.com/

#2 Server Response: http://www.example.com/
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:49:10 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.example.com/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Redirect Target: http://www.example.com/

#3 Server Response: http://www.example.com/
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:49:10 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.example.com/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Redirect Target: http://www.example.com/

Above keeps repeating....

The htaccess file is as follows:

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.?* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^index.htm$ / [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

AuthName www.example.com
AuthUserFile /www/site/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /www/site/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Is there some error in the above causing this issue?

Many thanks for your reply which has finally solved the problem. :-)

I tried the code you suggested but it didn't immediately work when I plugged in my domain details.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# Redirect client index.htm requests to "/"
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.htm\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.htm$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]
#
# Force preferred domain for all requests to this server
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.co\.nz
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

However it did work when I changed the order around & replaced the "Force preferred domain for all requests to this server" code with what I'd been using before. The code that seems to be working OK is this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.co.\nz [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

# Redirect client index.htm requests to "/"
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.htm\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.htm$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]

Do you see any issues with doing it this way? Hoping I've not made a major cock up doing this because I didn't understand your comments that for reference, the pattern in that RewriteCond matches the form of THE_REQUEST, an example of which would be:

GET /index.html HTTP/1.1
-or-
PROPPATCH /something.html HTTP/1.0

Again, many thanks for your help

http://www.example.com/anything/index.htm

are redirected to the corresponding

http://www.example.com/anything/

--and also for two levels deep, three levels deep, etc.?

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(.*)index\.htm\ HTTP/
RewriteRule index\.htm$ http://www.example.com/%1 [R=301,L]

Condition: Added a catch-all that precedes index.htm, so /anything that ends in index.html will match.

Rule: removed the ^ (hard begining of a line), but left the $ (end of a line), so any request that ends in index.htm will be compared. Also added %1 to the Rewrite URL, so if there is anything stored preceding index.htm, that will be returned in the redirect.

Hope this helps.

Justin

I have not tested this, so it may need a 'tweek' or two.