.htaccess Redirecting Woes

I am having a hard time figuring this one out! I am a noobie webmasta!

What I want to do is this:

have http://www.example.com/ redirect to http://ex.com/325264222

Which I was able to do by putting "Redirect 301 / http://ex.com/325264222 " into an htaccess file in the root directory.

BUT now what I want to do is have it so that I can bypass it by using http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and NOT have it redirect me (which it still does) but have it still redirect if I go to http://www.example.com/

Can someone please tell me what I need to do here?

Thanks!!

Only redirect / and not /* ?edit: No, can't you do that, like / to bla and /* to domain of rest of site.

Edited December 12, 2006 by toby (see edit history)

Only redirect / and not /* ?

Correct

Why not use the code say:

Redirect /index.html [url=http://ex.com/325264222]http://ex.com/325264222[/url]

Because by using / you say to your htaccess to redirect the whole domain.. therefore, you could use another htaccess file in your blog directory which wouldn't have redirection, but don't know how that would work.

Also you could do it using PHP, bu creating a index.php and sending a redirect header, or if you don't like php, when you can create a index.html file and redirect using meta tag or javascript, but using javascript in my opinion is stupid.
Edited December 12, 2006 by Quatrux (see edit history)

Quatrux is referring to this php redirct.

<?phpheader("Location: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/;'>http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/;

For the htaccess you would set it up like so:

redirect /~youraccount/index.html http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

As you can see you would need to list the whole directory for this to work and that should help you out a little bit.

Sorry but I am still lost. You will need to point out which htaccess files i need to edit and how and I might as well give you the links im using so I don't get further confused >.<

So where it starts is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and I want it to redirect to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

But I want to also be able to set up a blog at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and not have it redirect me to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ like it does right now if you type in the above url (/blog/)


Thanks!

Edited December 14, 2006 by Tropicality (see edit history)