301 redirect in sub folder

Hi

I'm trying to do a redirect from an index.html file in a subfolder to a new file index.php - can someone tell me how to do this please?

i.e. www.mydomain.com/xyz/index.html
needs to redirect to:
www.mydomain.com/xyz/index.php

Oh, I'm using apache so I need a RewriteRule

Many thanks in advance

 

You should create (or modify) .htaccess file in xyz directory.
Try to input there:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index\.html /xyz/index\.php

 

Do you need to keep index.html? Why not just delete it?

Otherwise just use rewrite rule in your root htaccess -

RewriteRule ^xyz/index\.html$ http://www.yourdomain.com/xyz/index.php [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

 

Oops! I just realised I made a slight mistake in my original post.
I actually wanted a redirect from /xyz / to /xyz/index.php

Thanks billybear you were spot on - Cheers