redirecting index.php to index.html

I have an old site that I have completely changed to .html extensions. I now am at the final stages and need to redirect the index.php to index.html

The trouble is that I get a redirect loop as it continues to look at index.php as the root file.

Here is what I have so far in .htaccess

AddType application/x-httpd-php htm html php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .htm .html

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.example.co.uk/$1 [R=301]





RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.*index\.html?\ HTTP/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html?$ http://www.example.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]


Redirect 301 /operation.php http://www.example.co.uk/

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Any pointers on how I can go about this?

Thanks a lot in advance

 

Hi you can try this I have implemented this on my site and it's working fine so you can use this one

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]


RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /(.*)index\.(html?|php|asp|cfm)\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.(html?|php|asp|cfm)$ http://www.example.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Redirect 301 /operation.php http://www.example.co.uk/CODE]

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Please ignore first

 and in the last CODE] as i am new here i was not able to post the url that's why it is there :)

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Hi thanks a lot