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

i changed index.html index.php - want able redirect reflect this, , rewrite forces foo.com/index.php foo.com/ , have access .php file.

i have separate site i.e. bar.com located in subdirectory under foo.com want remain unaffected.

this had, results in 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 way this? thanks!

the redirectmatch directive matches after internal redirect takes / request , redirects /index.html, put through url-file mapping pipeline again , matches redirect directive.

you can try including a:

directoryindex index.php 

to prevent automatic internal redirect. should use %{the_request} match index.html file you're doing 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 can bypass index.php entirely:

rewritecond %{the_request} ^[a-z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.html\ http/ rewriterule ^(.*)index\.html$ /$1 [r=301,l]