301 Redirect is Not Working with Index File

Question

I'm trying to 301 Redirect the Index.php to another URL

Here's my htaccess codes

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

Redirect 301 /index.php /en1

RewriteRule en1 index.php [NC]

My domain for example is

www.mysite.com 

I want this to work as

www.mysite.com/en1 

In the URL bar its showing the new URL but browser says

The page isn’t redirecting properly

How to fix this 301 Redirect?

Answer 1

With your shown samples please try following .htaccess rules file. Please make sure to clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine ON

##Implement http ---> https rules here.
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

##External redirect rules here.
RewriteRule ^/?$ /en5 [R=301,L]

##Internal rewrite to index.php rules here.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^en5/?$ index.php [L]

OR If you want to write a Generic rule for rewriting each non-existing file to index.php then try following:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine ON

##Implement http ---> https rules here.
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

##External redirect rules here.
RewriteRule ^/?$ /en5 [R=301,L]

##Internal rewrite to index.php rules here.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

NOTE: Use either of rules set one at a time only.