Redirect..........Help

[MoMas]

I need help with redirect. When a person logs onto my website they get an index. I have tried redirect by using:

Redirect /www.lottsaprettythings.com http://www.lottsaprettythings.com/osCommerce/catalog/

but to no avail. The viewer still ends up with the Index.

What am I missing? I am a novice at this and I don't know what to do.

[tbonekkt]

Put a blank file in your htdocs - name it index.html

Then your redirect code should be:
Redirect index.html http://www.lottsaprettythings.com/osCommerce/catalog/

[stevel]

Make that:

redirect /index.html http://www.lottsaprettythings.com/osCommerce/catalog/

Or you can do what I do and move everything under catalog to the top level (under htdocs). Just make the appropriate changes in your configure.php files.

[MoMas]

Thanks you all for helping me. I would be lost here without you. So far I have been able to accomplish these daring feats with your help.