How do I htaccess redirect index.html to index.php and index.php to /

Question

I recently changed my index.html to index.php - I want to be able to do a redirect to reflect this, and then also a rewrite that forces foo.com/index.php to just be foo.com/ and have it access the .php file.

I also have a separate site ie bar.com located in a subdirectory under foo.com that I want to remain unaffected.

This is what I had, which results in a redirect loop:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/index.html?$ /index.php
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

Is there a way to do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

The RedirectMatch directive matches after the internal redirect that takes the / request and redirects it to /index.html , then it get put through the URL-file mapping pipeline again and thus matches your redirect directive.

You can try including a:

DirectoryIndex index.php

to prevent this automatic internal redirect. You should also use the %{THE_REQUEST} match with the index.html file like you're doing with index.php :

Options +FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.php

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ /$1index.php [R=301,L]

Or you can bypass index.php entirely:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]