.htaccess not working, please advise

My goal is to redirect /index.html to / with the .htaccess file
I found the following code and added it to the front of my existing .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

This has had no effect. I have a linux based account with registerfly, plesk control panel, and apache server. This is the full text of the file below. Please give me some advice. Thanks.


RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]

# -FrontPage-

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


<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName proe-design.com
AuthUserFile /home/httpd/vhosts/proe-design.com/httpdocs/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/httpd/vhosts/proe-design.com/httpdocs/_vti_pvt/service.grp

 

Try this instead:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.html\ HTTP/ 
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ http://www.domain.com/ [R=301,L] 

Code (markup):

 

seems to be working perfectly now thanks

 

OK I'm totally retarded. It was actually working the first time. I thought I uploaded the .htaccess to my test site. I had actually done it to my real site. Thats why the test site wasn't responding. Both codes actually work.

 

You need to relax a bit