301 Redirect Question for trailing slash & index.php

[anoopbal]

1. Can you show me how to do a redirect for forhttp://www.exercisebiology.com to http://www.exercisebiology.com/  I want to add the trailing slash.

2. Also how to redirect  from http://www.exercisebiology.com/in...

to http://www.exercisebiology.com/.

When I tried to redirect the index.php last time, I couldn't login to the forums. Everytime when someone tries to login to my forums, it takes them the to the home page. I did it through the hostgator CP. I am thinking someone could help me here.

Thank you so much!

[anoopbal]

I asked my hostagtor customer service and he said I cannot add the trailing sash since it will create a infinite loop.

And I added the index.php through the hostagtor control panel where it has a form which you can fill. And it automatically  writes the code.

I am just confused about the trailing slash code in the article.

[RyanKent]

**When I tried to redirect the index.php last time, I couldn't login to the forums. Everytime when someone tries to login to my forums, it takes them the to the home page. **

The first thing you should clearly understand is altering your htaccess file is not something which should be done except by professionals who understand the Regex language used and how htaccess works. If you make an error your website can become instantly unavailable, or worse you can open up a security gap in your site and it may be exploited at a much later time.

Additionally, not only the code matters but exactly where the code is placed within the htaccess file. I would recommend contacting your developer or web host for assistance. With that above understood, here are links to two articles which share instructions on how to achieve the results you desire:

Add trailing slash: http://enarion.net/web/htaccess/trailing-slash/

Redirect index.php to root: http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/redirect-index-blog-root.html