I have a number of sites on a "deluxe hosting" plan on GoDaddy, which means there is one top-level site at the root, and for each additional domain, their files reside in a folder within the root. If you think this question has been asked before, then please direct me to the solution, because I can't find quite the answer, though I'm sure it isn't new.
Now, there is an .htaccess file in the root (the top-level site), which is used to redirect in the case where someone types in "index.html" it goes to "index.php":
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
redirect 301 /about.html /about.php
redirect 301 /boat.html /boat.php
redirect 301 /contact.html /contact.php
redirect 301 /charters.html /index.php
redirect 301 /combotrips.html /index.php
redirect 301 /contact-thanks.html /contact-thanks.php
redirect 301 /crew.html /crew.php
redirect 301 /diving.html /key-west-diving.php
redirect 301 /divingcharters.html /key-west-diving.php
redirect 301 /ecocharters.html /eco-tours.php
redirect 301 /fishingcharters.html /key-west-fishing.php
redirect 301 /gallery.html /gallery.php
redirect 301 /index.html /index.php
redirect 301 /packnship.html /key-west-fish-shipped.php
redirect 301 /testimonials.html /testimonials.php
redirect 301 /thefish.html /key-west-fishing.php
redirect 301 /fishing-charters.php /fishing-charter-rates.php
#redirect 301 /Fish%20Availability%20Chart.pdf /docs/key-west-local-fish.pdf
I did not write the .htaccess file. In fact, I don't really understand .htaccess files all that well.
Now I added a new site, which has its sub-folder. This new site was moved from another completely different hosting company. This new site has an index.html, about.html, etc. When I type in "index.html, it immediately tries to redirect to index.php. Same thing with about.php, and I think all the other .html pages try to redirect to a .php page.
In this new site folder, there is no .htaccess file.
I did write a new .htaccess file, and put a RewriteEngine Off line, but it didn't do anything different.
How can I make this site not redirect the .html files to .php files?
Update: To get this working I gutted all but the first and last lines of the top-level .htaccess file contents. I don't count this as the answer but more like "a solution". I'm not really sure why the top-level site has those redirects to begin with. I inherited this site from a previous web company.