: Rewrite Issue on index.html I have index.html on my html_directory on my website also I entered a rule as follows: RewriteRule ^index.html$ newindex.php It seems requests to my site is routing

@Martha676

If you don't want to set DirectoryIndex like martinstoeckli wrote I would improve your rewrite a bit:

RewriteRule ^index.html$ newindex.php [R=301,L]



you can remove the index.html - it's not needed anymore with this rule
no, not completely. Dots should be escaped in regexp with . Because it's obviously your old entrypage you should redirect "permanent" (HTTP Statuscode 301) your page.
the newindex.php

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@Murray432

Hope i understand you correctly, you want to define the entry page newindex.php for your directory? There is no need for rewriting, simply define which page acts as the entry page. In the .htaccess file you can define:

DirectoryIndex newindex.php


Now, if anybody calls your directory www.example.com, the page www.example.com/newindex.php will be shown. The file index.html is not necessary in this case, it's name is just a convention.

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