redirect from root and keep adres in addressbar?

[vegeta01]

How do I direct people visiting 'http://www.example.nl/' or 'http://www.example.nl/index.html' to 'www.example.nl/dir/file.html' and keep the address they visited in the addressbar? I tried a lot and searched in the forum, but without success...

[jdMorgan]

Study carefully the distinction between an external redirect and an internal rewrite.

For more information, see the documents cited in our forum charter [webmasterworld.com] and the tutorials in the Apache forum section of the WebmasterWorld library [webmasterworld.com].

Jim