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Help,

I've tried to get help regarding this problem in other n/gs, but to no
avail :-(.  Hopefully someone here will be able to help.... 

I'm having real problems trying to get my head round mod_rewrite.

I'm trying to achieve two things;


(1)
my web site can be accessed via several URL's, ie

www.examplesite.co.uk
www.example-site.co.uk
example-site.co.uk

etc..

I want these to be rewritten to one URL - www.examplesite.co.uk

I think I've achieved this by;

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}	!www.examplesite.co.uk
RewriteRule ^.*$	http://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [R]


(2)
Now - I wish to have all requests to  www.examplesite.co.uk/ go to my
normal document root, but www.examplesite.co.uk/any-other-text (where
'any-other-text', really is any text at all) redirected to
www.examplesite.co.uk/redirect.

Anything I write seems to put a browser in an endless loop, or try to
access www.examplesite.co.uk/any-other-text.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.