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?

[mipadi]

The .htaccess files should not be used when there is no access to the main server configuration file.

Pardon? A .htaccess should be used if you can't access the main server config file, unless I am missing something.

Anyhow, shouldn't this be resolved?

Meh. Actually, what I thought (and posted) was the solution didn't work. I have a workaround in place, but if I could find a better solution that'd be great.