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fine0023 · 09-03-2012, 10:46 AM

I was wondering if it is necessary to keep all of this code in my htaccess....because I have www.mydomain.com set as my hard canonical name, which I think is supposed to redirect aliases such as mydomain.com automatically (without having to code anything in htacess). However, I don't think this has anything to do with redirecting index.html to the non-index.html url. Would it make sense to take out the first part:

Code:

#if the domain is not www.mydomain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.com$ [NC]
#redirect to www.mydomain.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

and leave in the second part:

Code:

#leave this rule in place, but after the one above to handle the home page
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.html\ HTTP/ 
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

?

09-03-2012, 10:46 AM	PM User \| #3
fine0023 New Coder Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 22 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I was wondering if it is necessary to keep all of this code in my htaccess....because I have www.mydomain.com set as my hard canonical name, which I think is supposed to redirect aliases such as mydomain.com automatically (without having to code anything in htacess). However, I don't think this has anything to do with redirecting index.html to the non-index.html url. Would it make sense to take out the first part: Code: #if the domain is not www.mydomain.com RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.com$ [NC] #redirect to www.mydomain.com RewriteRule ^(.)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301] and leave in the second part: Code: #leave this rule in place, but after the one above to handle the home page RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.html\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^(.)index\.html$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] ?