.htaccess

IS this how to do a 301??

[hurlimann]

I need a 301 placed in the root. The host has replied. Is this right?:

I placed the redirect in your .htaccess, but did not activate the .htaccess. I want to run this by you to make sure it is what you want:Redirect 301 / [xxxxx...]

[nwilson]

What's a 301? I use .htaccess to redirect 404's like this:

ErrorDocument 404 /general/oops.html

But what he's done looks right....

[hurlimann]

301 is a premanant redirect.

[bobriggs]

That is correct as far as it goes. Assuming you're trying to redirect to another host, (xxxxx), you'll want to add a trailing slash, otherwise there will be a second redirect:

redirect permanent / [xxxxx...]

Permanent and 301 are the same: Apache mod_alias [httpd.apache.org]

[nwilson]

Nice, I have to redirect a clients old site to new and was going to use http headers but that looks even easier!

Nick