create alias with .htaccess

Hello,

I'm a complete noob in apache configuration, so please explain stuff as for the inocent mind

I'm trying to create aliases for my sites files, for example:
i want to redirect www.mysite.com/contact_new.html to www.mysite.com/contact .

How do i do this? I read on the web that it can, very easely, be used "Alias /contact /contact_new.html" but it is bot available to use in .htaccess file.

So where can i use it? (I don't own the server), or if this is out my hands, how can i do this with rewrite_mod ?

Note: i have read different explanation on the web regarding this, but they didn't make any sense for me. So if you can, please just write the code that I can paste in my .htaccess file (regarding my example) , and then i will adapt it for other stuff.

thank you!

 

If you want to have just a simple 301 redirection then you can try adding this to your .htaccess :

redirect 301 /contact_new.html http://www.mysite.com/contact/

Code (markup):

or you can do it like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^contact_new.html$ /contact/ [L]

Code (markup):

I hope this helps. Cheers!

 

Thank you!

I realized that I wrote it the other way around, but i finally got it working like this:

RewriteRule ^contact$ /contact_new.html [L]

Thanks again! Cheers!