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Aha! A friend recognized the mistake I was making. I needed to save the .htaccess file with Unix line breaks, not Mac or DOS! So the following works, so long as it has Unix line breaks: RedirectPermanent /first.html http://zarathud.org/page1.html RedirectPermanent /page1.shtml http://zarathud.org/page1.html RedirectPermanent /page2.shtml http://zarathud.org/sub/page2.html RedirectPermanent /page3.html http://zarathud.org/boat/page3.html I tried following someone's suggestion for /website/first.html, etc. but that didn't work, even with Unix line breaks. I think that path just doesn't suit my situation. I also wanted to try rewrite (looks cool!) but I haven't gotten to it yet, and I would have made the same mistake anyway. In BBEdit 5.1 (an older version of a great Mac text editor), which is what I have here at work, you can choose Unix line breaks from the Save As dialog's Options. The trick is, you can't choose this option when using Save to FTP Server. So you have to save correctly to desktop first, and then save to server. Thanks for all your advice. It seems like a lot of people are unfamiliar with this technique. I think it's worth using; it should make life easier for the webmaster (me) and for the customers. --complex ===== Note: Any HTML I've typed probably contains spaces or periods to break it in HTML-capable mail readers. (e.g. <.H1>Like This< /H1> ) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
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