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    <p>In order to remove <code>index.html</code> or <code>index.htm</code> from urls I use the following in my <code>.htaccess</code></p> <pre><code>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /index\.html?$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html?$ "/$1" [NC,R=301,NE,L] </code></pre> <p><strong>This works!</strong> (More info about flags at the end of this question *)</p> <p>Then in order to add <code>www</code> in urls I use the following in my <code>.htaccess</code></p> <pre><code>RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.mydomain.com/$1" [R=301,NE,L] </code></pre> <p><strong>This works too!</strong></p> <p>The question here is <strong>how to avoid the double redirection created by rules above in cases like the one below:</strong></p> <ol> <li><strong>browsers asks for <code>http://mydomain.com/path/index.html</code></strong></li> <li><strong>server sends <code>301</code></strong> header to redircet browser to <code>http://mydomain.com/path/</code></li> <li>then browser requests <code>http://mydomain.com/path/</code></li> <li>now the <strong>server sends <code>301</code></strong> header to redircet browser to <code>http://www.mydomain.com/path/</code></li> </ol> <p>This is obviously not very smart cause a poor user who is asking <code>http://mydomain.com/path/index.html</code> would be double redirected, and he would feel page goes too slow. Moreover Googlebot might stop following the link cause to the double redircetion (I'm not sure on this last one and I don't want to get into a discussion on this, it's just another possible issue.)</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <hr> <p>*To whom it might be interested:</p> <ul> <li><code>NC</code> is used to redirect also uppercased files i.e. <code>INDEX.HTML</code> / <code>InDeX.HtM</code></li> <li><code>NE</code> is used to avoid double url encoding I avoid <code>http://.../index.html?hello=ba%20be</code> to be redirected to <code>http://.../index.html?hello=ba%2520be</code></li> <li><strike><code>QSA</code> is used to redirect also queries, i.e. <code>http://.../index.html?hello=babe</code> to <code>http://.../?hello=babe</code></strike> (not needed thanks to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6059920/removing-index-html-from-url-and-adding-www-with-one-single-301-redirect/6062534#6062534">anubhava answer</a>)</li> </ul>
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    1. CO[Answer in near-duplicate](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5607001/using-htaccess-to-redirect-domain-co-uk-index-html-to-www-domain-co-uk). To be fair the other question doesn't mandate the use of one redirect per many rules, but the answer is correct anyway.
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    2. CO@Cori Xii: I read that questions/answer before asking mine, the rules there work the same of mine, but as you said this question is about how to avoid the double redirect, the other question does not mind to do a double redirect.
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    3. COThe other _question_ doesn't mind, but the accepted _answer_ does what you're asking regardless, does it not?
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