.htaccess Redirect

[BluegrassGardener]

I have got my website to redirect from examplesite.com to www.examplesite.com with this code:

 

RewriteEngine on

Options +FollowSymLinks

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

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

</IfModule>

 

 

And I found this code to redirect from www.examplesite.com/index.html to www.examplesite.com :

 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^examplesite.com

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.examplesite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^$ index.html

 

I've been using the first one already and was wanting to also implement the second one, but didn't want to do it wrong and there is something I read about looping which means longer load time??

 

How do I write it to insert into .htaccess for it to work properly. If you paste the code, could you put it into quotes so I can just cut and paste. I have been searching for this answer for some time now and can never get a straight answer or solution. I don't think I'm being penalized by any search engines, but I do get two different PR values from Google for each. I'd just like to get everything redirecting to www.examplesite.com. Thanks!

Edited October 31, 2006 by BluegrassGardener