mod rewrite rule not working

[keak]

Hi there,
I am trying to do a redirect to the members sub-folder to another URL and I have the code

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^members*$ [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain.com/[/URL]
RewriteRule ^members/$ [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain.com/[/URL]

RewriteRule ^old\.html$ new.html

but instead of going to domain.com, it shows an error.

I tried a simple test and it seems to be working fine ....
old.html redirects to new.html


am i doing something wrong here?

 

[arbenin]

If you are redirecting to another server domain try adding [R,L] for external redirect and termination rule in the end of the line. Also '*' symbol does not mean a mask for anything in rewrite rules. Use (.*) instead which means any character (dot) multiple or zero times (star). Something like,

RewriteRule ^members/(.*)$ [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain.com/[/URL] [R,L]

Let me know if that does not work. Plus turn on logging and see what's going on, like this

RewriteLogLevel 3
RewriteLog "/path/to/file"

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