title: 301 redirect index.html to / or /index.php
body: <p>Greetings,</p>
  
  <p>I have just moved a website from IIS to Apache and am having a little trouble redirecting the index file without causing an infinite loop.</p>
  
  <p>Both of these individually will cause a loop-</p>
  
  <p>Redirect 301 /index.htm /index.php</p>
  
  <p>Redirect 301 /index.htm <a href="http://www.foo.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.foo.com/</a></p>
  
  <p>Below is a copy of my current .htaccess.  Can someone help me?  I have a bunch of links pointed to <a href="http://www.foo.com/index.htm" rel="noreferrer">http://www.foo.com/index.htm</a> that I would like to 301 redirect to <a href="http://www.foo.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.foo.com/</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteEngine On
  
  ########## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits
  ## If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below
  ## This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!
  #
  # Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URL
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]
  # Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]
  # Block out any script that includes a &lt;script&gt; tag in URL
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\&lt;|%3C).*script.*(\&gt;|%3E) [NC,OR]
  # Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
  # Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
  # Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error!
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]
  #
  ########## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits
  
  #  Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL
  #  is not directly related to physical file paths.
  #  Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root)
  
  # RewriteBase /
  
  ########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section
  #
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|\.cfm|/[^.]*)$  [NC]
  RewriteRule (.*) index.php
  RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
  #
  ########## End - Joomla! core SEF Section
  
  Redirect 301 /a /administrator
  </code></pre>