Joomla sef404 301 redirection problem

I have my site in joomla having sef404 rewriting component install in it. It is having开发者_运维知识库 a really good page ranking in Google.But the problem is that i want to do 301 redirection of some of my article to my new site.

I am trying something like below but it is not working:

 Options +FollowSymLinks
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteRule ^somearticle(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/somearticle [R=301,L]

I know sef404 is conflicting somewhere but what is the solution than?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance !!

Try to write something like this in your .htaccess file

Redirect 301 somearticle.html http://domain.com/somearticle.html