If someone types in my domain name with or without a slash I want to redirect to my php index page within my php folder.
Also I want calls to index.shtml to redirect to that page and images to again look in the root?
This is what I’m working with at the moment
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1/php/index2009.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/$ $1/php/index2009.php [L]
Which doesn’t work
You don’t need any rewrite rules. Just set
See the documentation for DirectoryIndex.