Need Help writing 301 redirects in .htaccess file

[WebsiteEditor]

SEOmoz tool shows me 2 errors for duplicate content pages (www.abc.com and www.abc.com/index.html). I believe, the solution to this is writing 301 redirects

I need two 301 redirects

1. abc.com  to  www.abc.com

2. /index.html  to  /     (which is www.abc.com/index.html   to   www.abc.com)

The code that I currently have is

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^abc.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.abc.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Redirect 301 http://www.abc.com/index.html http://www.abc.com

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but this does not redirect /index.html to abc.com. What is wrong here? Please help.

[Dr-Pete]

I don't recall why, but I don't think you can use a full (absolute) path for the first part of a "Redirect 301" statement Could you try just:

"Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.abc.com"

Typically, the rewrite command (with flag of "R=301") is much more flexible. The "Redirect 301" syntax has some limitations - it's easier to use, but it only covers a few, simple situations.

[icecarats]

Oh yeah, sorry. The case I was thinking of was when you wanted to detect >everything< (e.g. abc.com/afjsk.htm) and redirect it. If you're only concerned with one case (index.html) Ally's solution is better. Remember that for individual cases you'd have to make an entry for each one (index.htm, index.php, default.htm) if those are becoming issues as well, which I doubt they would be in your case.

[LoveFitness]

I'm not a hundred percent on this-but am interested to see what everyone else thinks-So be patient:

I think it should appear as follows:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !www.abc.com$[NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) $http//www.abc.com/$1 [L,R=301]

or

Redirect 301 abc.com/index.html http://www.abc.com

Make sure you save your.TXT file with the correct name and to the correct location. I hope this helps. If I have this wrong anyone I would love to know the correct way myself.

Thanks,

Ally

[icecarats]

I believe you need to have a wildcard at the end too; right now the expression is stopping searching at abc.com instead of looking past it. This is the one I use I think (going from memory) for a similar situation:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.abc.com(.*)$ [NC]

The (.*) means 'everything' as a wildcard