[selowitch]

My .htaccess file includes a section that looks like this (Note: domain names have been changed to protect the innocent):

Code:
# Permanently Moved
Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.mydomain.com/index.php
Redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.mydomain.com/index.php

The trouble with this is that when someone enters http://www.mydomain.com, they are automatically redirected to http://www.mydomain.com/index.php (and that's what shows up in their browser's address bar). Largely for aesthetic reasons, I'd rather do this instead:

Code:
# Permanently Moved
Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.mydomain.com/
Redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.mydomain.com/

Unfortunately, I think the latter code results in a bad loop. Any solutions to this dilemma? I really prefer everything to result in http:/www.mydomain.com showing up in the user's address bar no matter what. It just looks cleaner to me. I have old links to index.htm and index.html that I would love to have resolve to the root directory of the website.

[registered_user]

the latter code shouldn't result in a bad loop if your DirectoryIndex (the default file to read in a directory) is index.php

What if you choose your second bit of code and also put this in the .htaccess:

DirectoryIndex index.php

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by registered_user

What if you choose your second bit of code and also put this in the .htaccess:

DirectoryIndex index.php

Hey, thanks, Regis. That worked great!

[Love Calm Quiet]

I delete the index.htm and index.html files from server -- they trump index.php without resetting directoryindex. When they're missing: index.php rises to top.