Topic: Redirect index.html and remove file extensions not working

[zeeman007]

I'm not that well versed with this, so please excuse my noobness. Here's what i'm trying to accomplish. I want to (a) re-direct www.example.com/index.php to www.example.com (b) re-direct all other pages that end with .php to their respective pages such as www.example.com/about.php to www.example.com/about and (d) set the preferred canonical to "www." I showed someone the code from my HTACCESS below and they said it was completely wrong. Can anyone help me out here?

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.?* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit POST PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.example.com

ErrorDocument 500 http://www.example.com

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.example.com

ErrorDocument 403 http://www.example.com

ErrorDocument 401 http://www.example.com

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[James Blond]

The RewriteEngine On needs to be above the rules as far as I know. And it needs to be in each vhost