jdMorgan - 8:10 pm on Aug 4, 2010 (gmt 0)

That newly-mentioned rule would be more robustly written as:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]+\ /index\.(php|html?)\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.(php|html?)$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]

However, there should be no clash, because neither of these rules redirects to "index.php"

Jim