redirecting ur old site to a new one with htaccess

[recep]

hello friends, l want to redirect one of my old site to a new one with everything inside it, well l am planning to use htaccess for this one but l coulnt do it while l am using 404 pages after l closed the old site. they didnt work l dont know why.

Redirect /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://yoursite.com/newdirectory/newfile.html

l found this code,

All l want to do, l want to redirect all of my pages, documents, txt files and everything inside my old site ( every single link ) to one page l want to refer on new site, well it would be better if l can do it with htaccess..

Can Anyone explain me how to ? Thanks..

[atox]

Try this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/onepage.html [R=301,L]

[StupidScript]

Are you not able to access the httpd.conf file directly? It's a much better place to put those kinds of instructions.

Note that in order to use .htaccess files your Apache server configuration for that directory should include the AllowOverride directive, unless the server operator has not changed the default behavior (AllowOverride All) for secutiry purposes (which they should have done). If they have included the AllowOverride directive for your directory, then it should be set to a minimum of FileInfo in order for Apache's mod_rewrite to be allowed to handle the rewrite instructions.

Minimum server config entry to allow use of .htaccess and mod_rewrite:
<Directory "/var/www/home/user">
AllowOverride FileInfo
</Directory>

Better:
<Directory "/var/www/home/user">
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/onepage.html [R=301,L]
</Directory>

[recep]

thanks for your comments friends, very helpfull