Problems Redirecting Homepage in .htaccess

As an exit strategy, I dissolved an older blog so I could pass all the links to a newly written resource article on my home domain.

I successfully redirect ALL the subpages to my article on a different domain, all except the homepage itself.

Everytime I enter:

Redirect 301 / http://www.mysite.com

Code (markup):

All the 301 subpage redirects get broken. How do I 301 redirect all the subpages AND the top level domain too?

Thanks guys!

 

RedirectMatch .* http://www.mysite.com
Or you can use mod_rewrite to carry over the request info, e.g.:

oldsite.com/some-random-page to newsite.com/some-random-page

 

You're missing a trailing slash

 

Thanks everyone.

Here's what worked perfectly:

Redirect 301 /index.php http://www.mysite.com

Code (markup):

It was a WP blog, so I forget the rewrite condition was on.

 

What a good post .. can we expand this alittle further ..

I am crawling the web for this.

using rewrite can we :

Redirect all visitors looking for a *.php file to a new domiain ?
But then , have them redirect to the same name file on the new domain

example
www.domain.com/index3.php?some_string
redirect to
www.newdomian.com/index.php?some_string

Easy so far ... But
There are already .html files in www.domian.com , now i'm stuck Help ?

thanks in advance .
ali