LinuxQuestions.org - RewriteCond & Rewrite Rule Problemo

Hi Folks,

Ok I know what I want but how to write it I am falling into the land of numptiness...

I have 3 redirects

Code:

RewriteRule    ^/$                    /about/                                [L,R,NC,QSA]

RewriteRule    ^/index.html$          /about/                                [L,R,NC,QSA]

RewriteRule    ^/index.htm$            /about/                                [L,R,NC,QSA]

But what I need is to redirect all in ^/$ to /about/ except sitemap.xml

I have discovered rewritecond and am trying to get this to work, but no luck so far

Code:

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(sitemap.xml)

#RewriteRule ^about([^.]+)\.html$ http://www.myhostname.co.uk/about$1.html?Lang=en [R=301,L]

# Else redirect all others

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(html|htm|)$

#RewriteRule (.*) http://www.myhostname.co.uk/about/$1 [R=301,L]

This might be overkill but its the best lead I have so far..

As always appreciate your help...

Sea-Bass