ewwatson - 8:59 pm on Oct 15, 2012 (gmt 0)

is this the best one? cleanest no errors posted by jdmorgan...

# Externally redirect requests for index.html in any directory to "/" in that directory
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]+/)*index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)index\.html$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#
# Externally redirect requests for *all* non-canonical hostnames to canonical hostname,
# including case errors and appended FQDN indicator and/or port numbers.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]