RewriteRule to rename URL?

Question

I have two questions regarding RewriteRule, but they're both closely related so I hope it's OK I ask them both in a single post.

The first is that I'd like to strip trailing index.html's from the end of any URL, e.g.:

http://www.example.com/index.html -> http://www.example.com/

The second is to display the URL http://www.example.com/contact/ in the browser's address bar for all of the following URLs:

http://www.example.com/contact/
http://www.example.com/contact/index.html
http://www.example.com/contact/success.html
http://www.example.com/contact/failure.html

For example, if the user is redirected to http://www.example.com/contact/success.html I'd like that page to be displayed to them, but with http://www.example.com/contact/ as the URL. Is that possible?

Answer 1

For the index:

RewriteRule ^(.*)/index.html /$1/ [R]

Second:

RewriteRule ^contact/(success|failure)\.html /contact/ [L]