It seems that you misunderstood this post. There are no first and second methods. In the section “Putting the .htaccess in a subdirectory”, I was merely explaining what happen when you put the redirect code in the .htaccess in a folder. There is only one method, and it is by putting the redirect code in the .htaccess of the root directory. I’m afraid you really have to clutter your .htaccess file if you have that too many pages (600 you say?) to redirect. I’m not sure to what extent does it slow down the site since I never had 600 redirects before.

This is a newbie question, so I hope you will bear with me. Do I need to put anything else in the .htaccess file besides the one line redirect?

I tried doing the first method you mentioned, and I can’t get it to redirect at all.

There is an .htaccess file in the root directory of my site, too, but I don’t want to load that root level .htaccess file up with a bunch of redirects. I have about 25 subfolders with about thirty redirects in each subfolder, so putting 600 redirects in the root folder would end up slowing down every page.

Is there something I should look for in my root folder which might be “overriding” the redirect in the subfolder?

Thanks in advance for your help (and thanks for posting the article in the first place.