301 redirect help

I have this placed in my .htaccess file:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^blahblah.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.blahblah.com/$1 [r=301,nc]


To convert all non www pages. I also have an index.php file I would like to redirect to my home page. Any offer some advice on how to do?

Use this one:

Ok, it worked for http://www.blahblah.com/index.php, but not for http://blahblah.com/index.php . Does it matter?

for example if i use http://blahblah.com/index.php it redirects to http://www.blahblah.com/http://www.blahblah.com/

It should work for both!

If you request for http://blahblah.com/index.php it will first redirect to http://www.blahblah.com/index.php and then this will again redirect to http://www.blahblah.com/

thx for help i modified it a bit :

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^example.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]

Using these together and will redirect index.php to main page no matter if its non www or www.

thx for help I hope this is SEO Friendly?

for some reason it didn't.

You don't need to put rewriteEngine on for each code, you just need to put it once to turn the engine on.

So finally your htaccess should look like:

The reverse 301 Redirect i.e from index.php to www.domain.com/ could result in LOOP, which would not work.. so be carefull...

And infact that hardly matters..

Yups...and the reason is the second occurrence of the RewriteEngine On in the htaccess file.

Your previous htaccess was:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^example.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]

The later part of the code [in italics] overwrite the previous instruction [for redirecting non-www to www] {in green} and so the redirection is only working for /index.php to /

The redirect code for non-www to www thus stands void.

Ok, thx, I have it like this now, but if I don't add http://www.example.com/ after index\.php$ non www index.php doesn't work. I guess it don't matter like you said.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

rewritecond %{http_host} ^example.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.example.com/ [R=301,L]

By the way, I'm a newbie at this. What does "result in loop" mean?