.htaccess redirect 301 with exceptions, help please: .htaccess, redirect, permanent redirect, 301 redirect, redirect rules, redirect conditions

.htaccess redirect 301 with exceptions, help please

Hi

I have moved my wordpress into a subdirectory, it was on root before

the directory's name is articles and its under root. I have moved successfully and got my new permalinks working fine. So the old urls now are 301 redirected to contain the /articles/ within url

For example

http://yogicameron.com/ayurveda1/i-fasted-for-the-first-time-the-other-day-ask-a-yogi/

is successfully redirecting permanetly to

http://yogicameron.com/articles/ayurveda1/i-fasted-for-the-first-time-the-other-day-ask-a-yogi/

now. So that part is 100% OK.

Now here is the tricky part. I don't want to do permanent redirection on domain name itself

Let me explain

http://yogicameron.com/

redirects to

http://yogicameron.com/articles/

while I dont want to have permanent direction on the domain itself. Rather I want the index.html to be accessed when http://yogicameron.com/ is accessed.

Also the last thing, I have a bunch of .html files in the root. I don't want to apply 301 redirection when such a url is accessed

http://yogicameron.com/any_file_name_contaning_and-or_numbers.html

These html files are in root.

I am attaching the code for .htaccess in my root. It does what I have specified above and lacks the functionality I mentioned. I am very new to regular expressions, thats why heavily counting on your help.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yogicameron\.com)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yogicameron.com/articles/$1 [R=permanent,L]

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Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yogicameron\.com RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yogicameron.com/articles/$1 [R=permanent,L]

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yogicameron\.com RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yogicameron.com/articles/$1 [R=permanent,L]

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =yogicameron.com RewriteRule ^([^/]+/.*)$ http://yogicameron.com/articles/$1 [R=permanent,L] ^([^/]+/.*)$ = ^start of string [^/]+ 1 or n characters not a slash (negated character class) / followed by a slash .* followed by 0 or n characters the match is captured in a backreference no#1 (by grouping using the parenthesis)

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yogicameron\.com RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/?$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.html$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css|js|gif|png|jpg|jpeg|swf)$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yogicameron.com/articles/$1 [R=permanent,L]

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =yogicameron.com RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css|js|gif|png|jpg|jpeg|swf|js)$ RewriteRule ^([^/]+/.*)$ http://yogicameron.com/articles/$1 [R=permanent,L]

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