htaccess 301 redirection...help

[klinton]

Hey , I want to redirect all traffic that goes to some directory to another url...
htaccess looks like this:
redirect / http://www.blabla.com/main.php?id=affiliate

and It redirects to url, but adds old directory name at the end of url...so it finally looks like http://www.blabla.com/main.php?id=af...ddirectoryname

how to avoid adding this old directory name to final url ?

Thanks !

[Antonio]

redirect 301 /OLDDIRECTORY/ http://www.MYSITE.com/NEW_DIR/SOMETHING.HTML

should work ^^^

[klinton]

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /test/ on this server

[Antonio]

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /test/ on this server

just tested the code on one of my servers, works 100%

where do you place your htaccess?

if your site is

http://www.mysite.com/OLDIRECTORY/

then your htaccess should be in the root directory

if still doesn't work coctact your host, dunno

[klinton]

I placed in it subdirectory...

Well Thanks anyway,I'll set up redirection via php...don't want to mess with htaccess too much ;]