Trying to 301 redirect via our .htaccess file

[stripeycat]

I am trying to add a straighforward redirect to the .htaccess file of the website i'm (supposedly) administering.

Sadly I don't really understand the way this website has been set up due to experience in front end HTML/CSS work mostly, so i am trying to tiptoe around the core functionality where possible so that nothing breaks.

Having come to the issue of redirecting existing pages to new pages on the updated site that we are going to replace the old one with in february, I am just trying to test 301 redirects in the existing .htaccess file so that i can confirm that these work. But nothing seems to.

I've tried several versions which i've posted below, but none of these appears to have any effect?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^business-mobile.htm /blahtest.htm [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.svn/ - [F,L]
ErrorDocument 403 "Access Forbidden"
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww-perl.*
RewriteRule .* – [F,L]
</IfModule>

Or -

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RedirectPermanent business-mobile.htm blahtest.htm
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.svn/ - [F,L]
ErrorDocument 403 "Access Forbidden"
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww-perl.*
RewriteRule .* – [F,L]
</IfModule>

Or -

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RedirectPermanent business-mobile.htm blahtest.htm
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.svn/ - [F,L]
ErrorDocument 403 "Access Forbidden"
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww-perl.*
RewriteRule .* – [F,L]
</IfModule>

From what I understand, the lines

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.svn/ - [F,L] ErrorDocument 403 "Access Forbidden"

should come out as we do not use svn any longer (this is quite an old file / website) but other than that, I am quite far out of my depth here. I'd really appreciate any advice from anyone familiar with how an htaccess file functions?

[phranque]

Apologies phranque, I fed you a bum steer earlier.

btw i meant "magic" as an arthur c clarke reference:

3. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

so now we know...

[Samizdata]

so now we know...

Please see this thread: [webmasterworld.com...]

And apologies again for the confusion.

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