Mod Rewrite 301 redirect www.mysite.com to www.mysite.com/home.html

[garycocs]

Hi Lads,

Just wondering if you could help me out with this one, like I said above I have a client site where the client wants me to create a 301 redirect www.mysite.com to www.mysite.com/home.html for a Joomla based site.

I was trying the following:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com$ [nc]
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/home.html [R=301,L]

But that seems to be creating an error, it's looping back on itself.

 

[php.allstar]

any luck with this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com [nc]
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/home.html [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com$ [nc]
($ removed)

if not try:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [nc]
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/home.html [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mysite.com [nc]
(www. removed)

 

[garycocs]

The first one is still creating the loop, i.e. it redirects to home.html but keeps redirecting or something??

The second one works but redirect everything to home.html i.e. http://mysite.com/page1.html goes to http://www.mysite.com/home.html

Thanks for your help with this!

 

[php.allstar]

ok, sorry, i though you wanted absolutely everything to go to home.html!

try this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com [nc]
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/[COLOR=Red][B]$1[/B][/COLOR] [R=301,L]

 

[garycocs]

Ya sorry I should have been more clear.

I have that one in already and that works fine for everything else but I still can't get mysite.com/ to go to mysite.com/home.html

 

[mneylon]

DirectoryIndex ?

 

[garycocs]

Ya I saw that in my googling all right, would that be in the cpanel? Sorry for my ignorance I have an idea what that is but not exactly!

 

[mneylon]

Ya I saw that in my googling all right, would that be in the cpanel? Sorry for my ignorance I have an idea what that is but not exactly!

.htaccess normally

 

[garycocs]

Can that be set up with a 301 redirect?

My problem now is that it's looking for the home.html file and won't pick with the joomla index.php file.

Hmmmm

 

[mneylon]

Can that be set up with a 301 redirect?

My problem now is that it's looking for the home.html file and won't pick with the joomla index.php file.

Hmmmm

So you want it to do both?

 

[garycocs]

So you want it to do both?

Basically yes I suppose, I want to redirect / to /index.php but look like /home.html

By the way I've nothing to do with this madness I'm just trying to sort out their requests.