How to 301 redirect from an old to new site?

[rfgdxm1]

Here's the situation. Someone I know has a site at [example.com...] on a Unix box, and they have set up a mirror site at [someotherdomain.com....] The idea is to take down the old site, and redirect anyone going to that site to the proper URL on the new site. What is the syntax for the .htaccess file to accomplish this?

[jamie]

hi, i use

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [newsite.com...] [R=301,L]

the ^(.*)$ captures any URL on the old site and appends it, $1, to the new site

there's lots of examples of this in the apache forum

hth

(edited for clarity)