.htaccess 301 redirect not working?

Question

I have a static page of the form page1.html in my root directory and another page index.php also in the root directory. What I am trying to do is move all old incoming links

Answer 1

1. Don't mix mod_rewrite rules and mod_alias rules.
2. Keep redirect rules before default WP rule.

Use this DocumentRoot/.htaccess (one level above wordpress directory):

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(page1|page2)\.html?$ /wordpressInstallation/ [L,NC,R=301]

And remove Redirect directives from your Wordpress .htaccess.