301 redirect clarification

Is this syntax correct?

[icarus]

Hi, I would greatly appreciate it if someone could clarify this for me.

I've renamed a page (page remained on original site and in original folder) and used a 301 redirect like so:

redirect 301 /folder/file.php [site.com...]

While this is working, I would have thought it better to use something like this:

redirect 301 /folder/file.php /folder/file.htm

but this only created an error. Have I used the correct syntax (thinking mainly from a search engine spider point of view) for the 301 statement? If I haven't, could someone please let me know how it should be stated.

Thanks.

[DaveAtIFG]

The syntax is detailed here [httpd.apache.org] and what you have is correct.

[claus]

-just clarifying; your error in the latter case comes because a 301 redirect is an external redirect. It is not something that is internal to the server (SE's and browsers need to know about it).

As it is external, you have to use the full external path, including the http-stuff.

/claus

[icarus]

Thank you very much for the information and clarification, I greatly appreciate it