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I have a website hosted on namesco. They use Zeus servers. When I uploaded the site I submitted my URL to google. Google came back with errors:

http://www.coloursense.net/index.html 404 (Not found) Help Mar 10, 2008

I looked into the problem more and received this email back from google forums:

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Why index.html shoudl also give a 404 is the problem. It exists, it
returns a 200. Maybe it was a one-time error, soemthign wrong with the
server on that day.

Even though index.html exists OK, it shouldn't be used in navigation
and should be 301 redirected to the root, to take care of anybody
trying it or old bookmakrs or old cached urls. Matter of cleaning up
navigatin and keeping only one url for each page of content.

Yes, the actual default page may well be called index.html and its
content will be shown when you request the domain root url.
But it is also shown when you request domain root url AND index.html
- thus you have 2 urls that show the same content. Robots don't know
it's the same physical file - they don't care. it's 2 different urls
shwoing the same exact content, thus duplication.

I am referring to redirecting so that the URL will be just that of the
domain root url. This goes together with ensuring you don't use index.html in navigation but always just the domain root url.

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How can I use a .htaccess file to redirect the http://www.coloursense.net/index.html to the root?

I have spent a week trying to find out, I have no real experience in sorting this out.. could you help please!!!

Thanks



rob