i have tried a bunch of things that should work, but dont.

how do i redirect requests that come in without a named document such as:
http://www.somedomain.com/

that trailing slash. I want anything that comes into the root of the domain to get redirected to a specific page.

i tried
RewriteRule ^/$ /targetpage.

php

  [L,R]

but it no worky.

It's funny you post this... I had some

Apache

  stuff I was after yesterday and had trouble with mod_rewrite & .htaccess all day as well - I put the exact same code into the httpd.conf file and it worked perfectly. So I am thinking there is something I don't know about the way that mod_rewrite executes in .htaccess that is different from the way it behaves when in the .conf file...

I'll be looking at that today and will post as I know more. Your instruction looks fine, you're on the right track... more as I grind it out.

/p

Is that all you tried?  What happened with that code?

I use this on several domains:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !images
RewriteRule (.*) homepage.cgi <>

The Cond is so gif in my images folder do not get rewritten.

If I used the R flag, it would wind up in a loop.

On some file systems, nothing works without the correct RewriteBase.

Also, the / does not need to be escaped cuz the

regex

  is not using /'s as delimiters.

Two interesting points...

* I don't use the R flag, so I don't know its behavior
* I notice no forward slash in the front the conversion... I wonder if by adding a forward slash in the .htaccess file if that causes a loop as well...

bomps, thanks for the feedback, it sparked the solution for me. Yea i tried a bunch of things, i just meant to post 1 to show the "area" I had been looking in.

This worked:
RewriteRule ^$ /somepage.

php

  [L,NC]

yeay team.