Simple but evading me

[dmatthews Profile]

Hello. Our webmaster isn't available right now and a site has to be redirected. I know nothing about this, but I tried this from looking at rules on another site:

RewriteRule On
RewriteRule * http\://www.newwebsite.org [R=302,L,NC]

It complains about the *, said unknown expression. What criteria do I put to make it match any request? Thank you, sorry to be such a noob, lol.

[Yaroslav]

Hello.

Sorry for the late response.
The "redirect all" rule can look like this:

RewriteRule On
RewriteRule .* http\://www.newwebsite.org [R=302]

And you can use the following syntax instead if you want to preserve the file and path that was originally requested and redirect to the same location on a target site:

RewriteRule On
RewriteRule (.*) http\://www.newwebsite.org$1 [R=302]