Redirect to the root

[Enza Profile]

Hello all.

I am trying to redirect index.php and index.html to the root.

I've found the help on redirecting from non-www to www on this forum very useful, but the codes I found on the thread http://www.helicontech.com/forum/17801- ... _Root.html didn't work for my index.php redirect.

I don't know what version of ISAPI my hosting company, Titan, uses.

Can you please tell me what lines of code I need to add to my httpd.ini file to redirect index.php and index.html to the root?

Thank you.

[HeliconAndrew]

hello,

If you have httpd.INI, this means you have ISAPI_Rewrite 2. If you had httpd.CONF - of would have been ISAPI_Rewrite 3.
The code in the thread provided should work, just don't forget to add '[ISAPI_Rewrite]' in the befinning:

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[ISAPI_Rewrite]
RewriteRule ^/index\.php /index/.html [I,R]

You'd be able to find more examples for ISAPI_Rewrite 2 here

Regards
Andrew

[Enza Profile]

Thank you very much for your reply.

I tried the code you suggested, but what it does is redirect /index.php to /index/.html

What I am trying to do is redirect both index.php to the root and my old index.html to the root as well.

I suppose once I find the code that works for index.php, then I can just use it again modified for index.html, so the code I'm looking for does not need to perform both tasks at the same time.

Can you suggest the code for this?

Thank you again.

[HeliconAndrew]

My bad, I though you're redirecting php to html.

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[ISAPI_Rewrite]
RewriteRule ^/index\.php / [I,R]
RewriteRule ^/index\.html / [I,R]

Regards
Andrew

[Enza Profile]

Thank you.

I've tried the code and what happens now is that the browser cannot display the page if I type /index.php or /index.html

In fact I had already tried that, after your original code.

The code that worked to redirect from non-www to www was:

RewriteCond Host: (?!www\..*)(.+\.com)
RewriteRule (.*) http\://www.$1$2 [RP]

Based on that, does this give you an idea of what code could work for the current problem?

Thanks again.

[HeliconAndrew]

Please, specify

"I've tried the code and what happens now is that the browser cannot display the page if I type /index.php or /index.html"

Regards
Andrew

[Enza Profile]

If I type in my browser http://www.italytravelsguide.com/index.php or http://www.italytravelsguide.com/index.html, in both cases no page gets displayed, and I get the browser error message: "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage ".

Please let me know if this answers your question and it's clear enough.

Thank you. Regards
Enza

[Enza Profile]

Not now because I've reverted to the previous code, I mean, to avoid the error message.

[HeliconAndrew]

Well,

Since, this one worked

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RewriteRule ^/index\.php /index/.html [I,R]

and this one doesn't

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RewriteRule ^/index\.php / [I,R]

I'm puzzled. And the error message you provided doesn't specify if it's 404 error or smth else.

Regards
Andrew

[Enza Profile]

You were right to try to analyze the error message, which Internet Explorer didn't.

It's a loop problem, apparently.

Firefox, Chrome and Safari all point to the fact that:
"Too many redirects occurred while trying to open the page.
"This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page".

I'm working on it, and I'll keep you posted.

You've been very helpful in pointing me to the recognition of the problem.


Thank you. Regards
Enza

[Enza Profile]

Hello.

I have achieved what I wanted, i.e. both /index.php and /index.html are redirected to the root / , but in order to do that I had to delete index.html from the server, although that page is redirected, so it doesn't show any 404 error message or other error message.

The reason why I had to delete it is because I couldn't find a code for redirecting /index.html to /index.php, and if I kept index.html, the old page corresponding to it showed when the root / was displayed, and not the new page index.php, and I didn't want that to happen.

I don't know if Google minds the deletion of a page if it is also redirected.

In any event, to be on the safe side and make things neater, do you know the code to redirect /index.html to /index.php in ISAPI_Rewrite 2?

Thank you again. Regards
Enza

[HeliconAndrew]

Do I know the rule to redirect /index.html to /index.php?
I guess you were given a very similar rule in the beginning of this conversation. Or is it something else?

Regards
Andrew

[Enza Profile]

No, the code was for something different, namely redirecting index.php and index.html to the root.

Regards
Enza

[HeliconAndrew]

There was a rule:

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[ISAPI_Rewrite]
RewriteRule ^/index\.php /index/.html [I,R]


and the responce was:

"I tried the code you suggested, but what it does is redirect /index.php to /index/.html"

So now it's going to be:

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RewriteRule ^/index\.html /index/.php [I,R]

[Enza Profile]

That code, in either form, does not have any effect, I don't know why.

Anyway, I'm happy with the result I got, thank you very much for your help.