Question : 301 Redirect from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.domain.com/folder" target="_blank">www.domain.com/folder</a> to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.domain.com/folder/index.html" target=&q

I have a site that i am trying to do some redirects for.
The site currently has some linking partners who, for various reasons, can't change the URL.
the old url is something like
www.domain.com/Folder

I need it to point to :
www.domain.com/Folder/index.html

I have tried it using
redirect 301 /Folder/$ http://www.domain.com/Folder/index.html

but it didn't work.
 
I also tried
redirect 301 /Folder$ http://www.domain.com/Folder/index.html and that didn't work either.
 
I also tried putting a .htaccess file in the folder but it didn't work either.
If there is a way to force the folder to go to the index file without having to type in index.html into the URL, that would be great too!
Any help is greatly appreciated!!!!

Answer : 301 Redirect from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.domain.com/folder" target="_blank">www.domain.com/folder</a> to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.domain.com/folder/index.html" target=&q

(P.S. given that you are talking about an .htaccess file, I'm assuming that you are running on the Apache web server - is that correct?  You may have better luck in the Apache area.)