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The backreference you are using is not correct. You are redirecting to this URL which is probably not what you want to do.
applying-the-law-of-attraction.com/classic-law-of-attraction-collection/Newsletterc.html
Please post what you are trying to do and I can then provide the correct Redirect code/rule.

To redirect all old HTML website pages to your new site’s URL structure you would use this code below.  If your URL structure is 2 levels deep then you would use the /$1/$2 RedirectMatch code.  If your URL structure is 3 levels deep then you would use the /$1/$2/$3 RedirectMatch code, etc.

Source:  http://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/htaccess-redirect-code-where-do-i-add-redirect-htaccess-code/

RedirectMatch 301 ^/([^/]+)/([^/.]+)\.html$ /$1/$2/
RedirectMatch 301 ^/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/.]+)\.html$ /$1/$2/$3/

Or if you need to limit it by Host (domain name), you can use mod_rewrite:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} sitename.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/.]+)\.html$ /$1/$2/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} sitename.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/([^/]+)/([^/.]+)\.html$ /$1/$2/$3/ [R=301,L]

Your reply was flagged as Spam and has been unspammed.  The code above would be used to redirect all old html pages dynamically to your new site pages/structure.  If what you want to do instead is individual html page redirects then using the example URL’s you posted above, the RedirectMatch code would be this below.  There is not a $ backreference at the end of the redirect to URL because you want the redirect to go to / point to /step1/ and not point to “Your-Life-Purpose.html” in the new redirected URL.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/Your-Life-Purpose.html$ http://applying-the-law-of-attraction.com/step1/

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I noticed today that my domain at index.html or any other folder throws a 404 error.  I would really like to 301 redirect those pages, especially mysite.com/index.html since there will be good link juice to forward to my domain.

I had an HTML static site in the past and I just recently switched to a wordpress site.  I installed wordpress it in its own directory.  I believe this is causing me issues with placing the correct code in the right spot.

So in other words, I would like to permanently redirect:  mysite.com/index.html to mysite.com  or mysite.com/folder/index.html to mysite.com/folder/

This is the code I used. I tried this in the htaccess file in the root directory of the domain and it didn’t work.  I tried different versions and 301 redirects and kept breaking my site, so I just thought some smart people here would know since it may need to be rewritten and go in the htaccess folder where the site is installed. See code below.

# REDIRECT REQUESTS FOR INDEX.HTML IN ANY DIRECTORY TO "/"IN SAME DIRECTORY
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]+/)*index\.html\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)index\.html$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I’m wondering if URL in that that last line should be

http://www.mysite.com/wordpress/$1

or is this code totally wrong?

I’m not trying to redirect every HTML page on my old site.  I didn’t keep the old folder structure. I completely changed my URL’s because my old HTML pages were not very good for SEO purposes. I’ve redirected my old pages using standard Redirect 301 in htaccess file in my domains root folder, which works fine.

The problem I’m having is with index.html.  My biggest concern is with the this file in the site root: http://www.mysite.com/index.html.  That use to be home page file in the static site though it would redirect to http://www.mysite.com.   Right now the URL  http://www.mysite.com/index.html gives a 404 error.

My site is 12 years old and I have a lot of people over the years that linked to our site using that exactl URL unfortunately.  I want to 301 redirect it permanently so that this link does not 404 and I get link juice passed on for SEO purposes.  I’ve tried using  the code above and it doesn’t work.  I’ve also tried this:

Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.mysite.com/

The simple code above throws a redirect loop and breaks my site. Let me again emphasize that wordpress is installed in its own folder and not inside of root. Thanks again for looking at this.
Rob

Yes, you are correct about the strucutre.  And yes, I have the HTML pages redirected in /.htacess  and they work as intended. However, this code below does not work and breaks the site by causing a redirect loop.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/index.html$ http://www.mysite.com/

mysite.com/wordpress/ is where wordpress is installed
mysite.com/wordpress/.htaccess is where the root BPS file resides (begins with #   BULLETPROOF .50 >>>>>>> SECURE .HTACCESS  )
mysite.com/.htaccess  currently has a list of Redirect 301 codes that function correctly such as:

Redirect 301 /page.html http://www.mysite.com/new-page/

mysite.com/.htaccess is where i tried to add your suggestion, but the site breaks:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/index.html$ http://www.mysite.com/