.htaccess redirect root to index.php

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I need to redirect from http://example.com/ to http://example.com/index.php.

score 22 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 13 '18 at 15:21

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Use this:

DirectoryIndex index.php

edited Aug 13 '18 at 15:21

Uwe Keim

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answered Apr 16 '12 at 14:16

cfedermann

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For SEO reasons, it is _not_ ok to have the same content for two different URLs. So `DirectoryIndex` does _not_ help for the SEO scenario. – Uwe Keim Feb 14 '18 at 13:20

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 13 '18 at 15:20

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Try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$
RewriteRule ^$ http://example.com/index.php [L,R=301]

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answered Apr 16 '12 at 14:16

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Why do you need `mod_rewrite` for this ? `DirectoryIndex` is the correct answer here. – Pierre-Olivier Apr 16 '12 at 14:36
there's a difference in the way both work. default directory does not change the uri hence if you need to make some manipulations on it this is a mess. – Sebas Dec 08 '12 at 23:29
For SEO reasons, it is _not_ ok to have the same content for two different URLs. So `DirectoryIndex` does _not_ help for the SEO scenario. – Uwe Keim Feb 14 '18 at 13:20
this solution is more flexible, since directory index cannot redirect as OP requested – pc_ Jan 12 '19 at 11:30

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 13 '18 at 15:15

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Just to add my own solution, since the answer of Michael did not work for me, I did something like:

RewriteEngine on

# These two lines redirect non-www to www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.example.com$1 [R=301,L]

# These two lines redirect the root to index.html.
RewriteRule ^$ /index.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [R=301,L]

This also preserves any possible existing query string parameters.

answered Aug 13 '18 at 15:15

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for me this line helped thank you `RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [R=301,L]` – vikas etagi Mar 10 '23 at 06:48

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 09 '21 at 17:45

Adding to @Uwe Keim's answer above, I had non-www to www setup on Apache virtual hosts.

What worked for me on .htaccess was:

RewriteEngine on

# Two lines to redirect from the root web directory to myfile.html.
RewriteRule ^$ /index.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^/$ /index.html [R=301,L]

.htaccess redirect root to index.php

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