301 Redirect homepage and specific URLs to new site

[jmo912]

Hi Guys,
I'm trying to create an .htaccess file that not redirects the homepage as well as interior pages to the new site.

Here is what I have been trying to use:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

Redirect 301 / https://www.newwebsite.com
Redirect 301 /account https://www.newwebsite.com/customer/account/login

The homepage works, but the /account URL doesn't. It gets sent to an error page after trying to visit www.newwebsitec om/account

I have lots of pages that I'm attempting to match up with the new site. Any suggestions on how to do this and map them out? Thanks in advance!

[Luuk]

Your 'Redirect lines are wrong....
The '301' need not be there.
(http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current....html#redirect)

To redirect every page that is not found to home, use:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.example.com

[Jennypliskin]

Just try this way:

1. Create an empty text file using a text editor such as notepad, and save it as htaccess.txt.

NOTE:
The reason you should save the file as htaccess.txt is because many operating systems and FTP applications are unable to read or view .htaccess files by default. Once uploaded to the server you can rename the file to .htaccess.
2. Edit the contents of the file. Check the following examples:

301 (Permanent) Redirect: Point an entire site to a different URL on a permanent basis. This is the most common type of redirect and is useful in most situations. In this example, we are redirecting to the "mt-example.com" domain:

# This allows you to redirect your entire website to any other domain
Redirect 301 / http://mt-example.com/

302 (Temporary) Redirect: Point an entire site to a different temporary URL. This is useful for SEO purposes when you have a temporary landing page and plan to switch back to your main landing page at a later date:

# This allows you to redirect your entire website to any other domain
Redirect 302 / http://mt-example.com/

Redirect index.html to a specific subfolder:

# This allows you to redirect index.html to a specific subfolder
Redirect /index.html http://example.com/newdirectory/

Redirect an old file to a new file path:

# Redirect old file path to new file path
Redirect /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://example.com/newdirectory/newfile.html
Redirect to a specific index page:

# Provide Specific Index Page (Set the default handler)
DirectoryIndex index.html