$10 to whoever can answer this mod_rewrite question

Like most miva owners, I have a module which rewrites the categories for seo purposes, and modifies the htaccess :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-s
RewriteRule ^page/(.*) /Merchant2/merchant.mvc?page=$1

But because of miva not allowing a subcategory to belong to 2 different categories, I have some duplicate categories which I'd like to have one redirect to the other.

I tried : redirect 301 /page/C/CTGY/ES_ES http://www.condomman.com/page/C/CTGY/Durex-Extra-Sensitive

and also : RewriteRule ^page/C/CTGY/ES_ES(.*)$ http://www.condomman.com/page/C/CTGY/Durex-Extra-Sensitive
/$1 [R=301,L]

but neither worked because it interfered with the code already in place.

Any suggestions? I just need to 301 redirect a few categories to their duplicate counterparts, but the preceding code keeps interfering with it.

 

Try putting the exception rules before the general rules.

 

I tried that, doesn't seem to work .. could you show me what you mean? The specific code?