How to rewrite /news.html to the / ?

Hi! We have a small problem. Previously we had a main homepage as /news.html but now /index.html (the same as just root "/"). How can we make a 301-redirection from "/news.html" to the "/"?

Also, how to map common duplicate URLs to a single URL?

http://yourdomain.com
http://yourdomain.com/index.html
http://yourdomain.com/index.htm
http://yourdomain.com/index.php
http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php
http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html
all redirect to:
http://www.yourdomain.com/

http://yourdomain.com/subdir
http://yourdomain.com/subdir/index.html
http://yourdomain.com/subdir/index.htm
http://yourdomain.com/subdir/index.php
http://www.yourdomain.com/subdir/index.php
http://www.yourdomain.com/subdir/index.html
all redirect to:
http://www.yourdomain.com/subdir/

Thanx in advance!

Hello,

you can redirect it with:

Code:

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^news\.html$ http://www.yourdomain.com/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?(?:index\.(?:html?|php))$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Code:

 
RewriteRule ^news\.html$ http://ulfdalir.ulver.com/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?(?:index\.(?:html?|php))$ http://ulfdalir.ulver.com/$1 [L,R=301]

- get 500 Internal Server Error

Do you get it for any URL or for specific link only?

.htaccess include the next code:

Code:

 
Options -Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.html
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.ulfdalir\.ulver\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://ulfdalir.ulver.com/$1 [L,R=301]
rewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.html\ HTTP/ 
rewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://ulfdalir.ulver.com/ [R=301,L]
rewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /news\.html\ HTTP/ 
rewriteRule ^news\.html$ http://ulfdalir.ulver.com/ [R=301,L]

If I change the last 4 strings to the code you provided:

Code:

RewriteRule ^news\.html$ http://ulfdalir.ulver.com/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?(?:index\.(?:html?|php))$ http://ulfdalir.ulver.com/$1 [L,R=301]

, get just "500 Error" on the root http://ulfdalir.ulver.com/

Hello,

replied to your support ticket.