I've just recently redesigned an old static site to cmsms and needed to redirect the old pages. I found that using redirect 301 was producing urls that take you to the new page but then append ?page=oldpage.html which caused it to have a 401 error. Hunting around the forum I found that you need to use RewriteRule instead but it took me awhile to find the info then construct the string correct. Hopefully this will help out others needing to know how to build 301 redirects when mod_rewrite is enabled for pretty urls.
use RewriteRule instead of redirect 301 and place the code directly under
RewriteBase /
Your redirect command should look like this:
RewriteRule ^oldpage.html$ http://www.yoursite.com/newpage.html [R=301,L]
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