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

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to

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

to

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

Nimantha · Accepted Answer · 2025-09-19 15:14:26Z

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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]

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answered Dec 17, 2011 at 15:15

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