.htaccess

Redirect www.example.com/index.html to www.example.com/ with .htaccess file

I wish to redirect www.example.com/index.html

to

www.example.com/

but I do not wish to redirect all addresses with index.html like

www.example.com/folder/index.html

to

www.example.com/folder/

So, just to redirect first index.html page to root of site.

Solution

  • Add the following to the .htaccess file in the root folder of www.example.com

    RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# redirect html pages to the root domain
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ / [NC,R,L]