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thank you for your reply g1smd. will the htaccess code you provided prevent yahoo from indexing the /index.html version of my homepage? i'm new to this and have never manipulated an htaccess file before. i'd like to understand what is going on in the code so i can figure out how it works and what it does exactly. is there anywhere you can recommend that will provide an introduction adequate to help me understand/decipher what is going on in your coding?

any idea why yahoo chooses to index that page as opposed to the / version that google and others seem to do?

i imagine that since many sites make use of an index.html file as the primary html file in their root directory this issue must be common, but i haven't been able to find much information on the matter, which leads me to believe that maybe i'm doing something which is specifically causing this. if it's a design or structural issue, i'd happily fix it - as i said, i'm new to this. any thoughts?

and thank you again for your help.

They choose it because someone somewhere links to that version, and they just followed the link.

The redirect works for several names. See the # comment line above the code.

so all i have to do is replace the "www.example.com" with the url for my site and i'll be set?

Yep.


Also change the ¦ pipe ¦ symbol to be the real pipe symbol (the real one will not show up in the forum).