Help with .htaccess file Options

[mipadi]

I have a website at www.monkey-robot.com/. It's a blog. All my blog files are stored in a /blog subdirectory. Internally, I rewrite the root URL to /blog, which means that when you go to www.monkey-robot.com/ you get the contents of /blog, but through the magic of Apache you don't see the URL change.

That works. What's annoying is that www.monkey-robot.com/blog also shows the front page of the blog, which means the front page exists at 2 different URLs. This is bad. So I want to redirect www.monkey-robot.com/blog to the root URL.

This is my current .htaccess file for doing so:

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ErrorDocument 403 /404.html
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

Options -Indexes

#### Rewrite Rules ####

RewriteEngine On

# Rewrite monkey-robot.com to www.monkey-robot.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^monkey-robot\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.monkey-robot.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^$             /blog/               [L]
RewriteRule ^feeds/blog/?$ /feeds/blog/atom.xml [L]

Right after the RewriteRule ^$ /blog/ [L], I tried adding this:

CODE

RewriteRule ^blog/?$ / [R,L]

But that gave me an error with "infinite redirects", probably because of the line before it (even though I thought it shouldn't). So I did this instead:

CODE

RewriteRule ^blog/?$ http://www.monkey-robot.com/ [R,L]

But then I got the following Apache error: Invalid command '[R,L]', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration But I'm pretty sure the syntax is correct.

Any ideas?

[randycowell]

In general, you should never use .htaccess files unless you don't have access to the main server configuration file and htaccess files must be uploaded as ASCII mode, not BINARY.

[mipadi]

In general, you should never use .htaccess files unless you don't have access to the main server configuration file and htaccess files must be uploaded as ASCII mode, not BINARY.

Shared hosting, so I don't have access to the main config. Also, it's uploaded via rsync so the mode isn't a problem.