Problems with redirecting using mod rewrite

Newbie when it comes to .htaccess

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I would like to use .htaccess for redirects.
Have some questions though...
I've got it to work when the redirect's "section" looks like this:

RewriteRule ^sida1\.html$ index.html [R,NE,L]

RewriteRule ^sida1\.html$ index.html [R,NE,L]

RewriteRule ^sida2\.html$ index.html [R,NE,L]

RewriteRule ^sida3\.html$ index.html [R,NE,L]

The problem is that the first line (which could be any of the other redirects as well) needs to be there for it to work otherwise the RewriteRule ^sida1\.html$ index.html stops working - why is that - there is something that I'm missing here...

Also I would like these redirects to happen ONLY when the site is visited by browsers and NOT redirect when a search engine bot is crawling the site.
How would I go about doing that?
Would this work:

# Detects the major search engines
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}!Googlebot¦Msnbot¦Slurp¦Jeeves [NC]

Thanks - would appreciate some help...

[jdMorgan]

Does this work?

RewriteRule ^sida1\.html$ http://www.example.com/index.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^sida2\.html$ http://www.example.com/index.html [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^sida3\.html$ http://www.example.com/index.html [R=301,L]

The main difference is that an external redirect should specify the protocol and domain, otherwise, the domain specified by ServerName may be used if UseCanonicalName is set to "On".

Jim

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Hi Jim!

Thanks for your reply - it doesn't work. Still the same problem - with your code the 1st. line stops working again.
I'm not quite shure what you are talking about at the end of your reply though. The canonical etc. :-)

Niklas

[wide_circle]

Got it to work.
The excludes caused the problem. If
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f is not in use it's working - not sure why though... :-)

# Enables mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine on

# Sets the base folder of the Flash content
RewriteBase /

# Excludes real files and folders from rewriting
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Redirects
RewriteRule ^sida1\.html$ index.html [R,NE,L]
RewriteRule ^sida2\.html$ index.html [R,NE,L]
RewriteRule ^sida3\.html$ index.html [R,NE,L]

[g1smd]

>> I would like these redirects to happen ONLY when the site is visited by browsers and NOT redirect when a search engine bot is crawling the site. <<

Cough. I would read up on what Matt Cutts has to say about such redirects before your site falls down some massive Google-generated anti-web-spam hole that might open up beeath it.