Check my work for redirect

[eaglesphan]

Hello,

I need to redirect all requests that go to this URL:

http://www.desu.edu/cgi-bin/publish/webevent.cgi

to this URL:

http://www.desu.edu/calendar/

After studying the Apache rewrite guide and being totally confused, here is my attempt:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/publish/$ /calendar/ [R]

Before I make this change on our production server, I need to know two things:
First will this handle all requests to the /publish/ directory no matter what follows the slash?
Second does it matter where I put this directive in the httpd.conf file?
Thanks