Question

Server: Apache

I’m looking to rewrite my urls in the following way, and I can’t figure out a way to get it to work.

http://website.com/index.html 

I want it to redirect to:

http://website.com/ 

So basically I want to load index.html, but not display it in the url. I also don’t want to give it another name. I’m not looking for /index.html to become /index

Additionally, I’m trying to have any GET data such as:

http://website.com/index.html?id=0&name='fred' 

To rewrite to:

http://website.com/?id=0&name='fred'. 

If you have a solution that is not using .htaccess files that’s fine as well.

Answer 1

I believe this should work:

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^index\.html(.*)$ /$1 [R=permanent,L] 

This will redirect any requests that start with /index.html to simply ‘/‘ and will preserve any arguments that come after index.html