To stop index.html from showing on the homepage of your website, you can create a redirect in your .htaccess file to remove the index.html suffix from the URL. Here’s an example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ /$1 [L,R=301,NC]
This code first checks to see if the current connection is using HTTP (RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off) and redirects to HTTPS if necessary.
Then, the RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /index\.html [NC] line checks if the requested URL ends with index.html, and the RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ /$1 [L,R=301,NC] line removes the index.html suffix from the URL and redirects to the root directory if it does. The [L,R=301,NC] flags at the end of the line specify that the rule is permanent (R=301) and case-insensitive (NC).
This will ensure that requests to https://hostroster.com/index.html are redirected to https://hostroster.com/, effectively hiding the index.html suffix from the URL.
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