Mod-Rewrite in .htaccess? - .htaccess

Question

I'd like to implement 301 redirection from http://www.onbip.com/index-en.html to http://www.onbip.com/
In htaccess file I have:
RewriteRule ^.htaccess$ - [F,L] #403 Forbidden
RewriteRule ^inc/ - [F,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^onbip\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http: //www.onbip.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
RewriteRule ^index-([^\.]+)\.html$ index.php?lang=$1 [L]
I Need to standardize the default page which will be http://www.onbip.com/
How?

Answer 1

In your httpd.conf file, there should already be a line to forbid access to .ht* files that will probably look like this:
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</Files>
If you want to be redundent, using Files or FilesMatch to protect it would probably be good. If you want to use Rewrite for this, you could throw a 404 as though it doesn't exist.
Here is a redirect (not a mod_rewrite) for a directory /inc to a 404 page
This is at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html
Redirect 404 /inc
Now for rewrite
see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
#Set the page (and order of if they are there) to be shown if asked for a directory
#just put index.php if that's all you want
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
RewriteEngine on
# if not www.onbip.com, then send to http://www.onbip.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.onbip\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.onbip.com/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
# Now if entered "/index-ab.html" then call "/?lang=ab"
# You might want to see about the regex for proper lang, I put something like "en" or "us-en"
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index-([a-z]{2}(-[a-z]{2})?)\.html$ ?lang=$1 [R=301,NC,L]
The last will call "/" from the server which will be "index.php" first if it exists according to directory index.