htaccess redirect index.html with addon domains

how to redirect index.html to index.php on only the root and not subfolders

[redtricycle]

Hi, my current mod_rewrite looks like this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I'm trying to make:
[abc.com...] redirect to [abc.com...]

However, when I make redirects, the subfolders (addon domains) are affected too, for example:
[blah.com...] redirects to [abc.dom...]

How do I make a rewrite condition and rule that only works for the main domain?
I've tried adding:

# Rewrite /index.html to /index.php for abc.com only 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?abc\.com 
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ /index.php [L]

But that doesn't work.

[redtricycle]

I found what I was looking for at:
[webmasterworld.com...]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?blah\.com 
RewriteRule .* - [L]

at the very top will disable the redirect rules

[redtricycle]

Nevermind...
[blah.com...] will still redirect to [abc.com...]

I thought it worked for a second.

Here's what I have:

#This commented code didn't work either
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?blah\.com
#RewriteRule .* - [L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
# I expect this to ignore the following rule if it's for blah.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^(www\.)?blah\.com
RedirectMatch permanent ^/index.html$ http://www.abc.com/index.php

[jdMorgan]

It looks to me as if it's your WordPress code that's doing this; That code will rewrite a request for any file or directory that does not exist to /index.php.

Jim

[redtricycle]

If I put the following at the very top:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?blah\.com
RewriteRule .* - [L]

I expect it to ignore everything below it, especially the:

 RedirectMatch permanent ^/index.html$ http://www.abc.com/index.php 

which is further down.

But I get the same problem: www.blah.com/index.html will redirect to www.abc.com/index.php

[edited by: jdMorgan at 3:17 am (utc) on Feb. 8, 2007]
[edit reason] formatting clean-up [/edit]

[jdMorgan]

That's it: RedirectMatch is from an entirely different module -- mod_alias -- and will not be affected in any way by the mod_rewrite exclusion.

If you replace it with

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

then the exclusion will apply.

Each Apache module in turn parses your .htaccess file, executing only the directives that it understands. As such, very little 'communication' is available between these modules, and the order of directives from different modules in your code has no effect on the order in which they will be processed. Rather, directives all of the same module will be processed in order, but the directives from differing modules will be processed in the order that those modules execute -- as determined by the inverse LoadModule order on Apache 1.x, and by an internal priority scheme on Apache 2.x.

Jim