I have Ultimate SEO installed on my zen 1.5.1
I have a product which I will not be selling anymore. I do not want to delete the product, because there are many web sites linking to it.
So I want to setup a a redirect link to the new product which replaced it.
But it seems like something is overriding everything I do
I first created a new folder and file the same as the product I want to remove and then placed the following in the header
Code:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; url=http://www.4x4direct.co.za/shop/led-bar-c-15/led-super-bar-205-10800lumens-single-row-p-516.htm">
I uploaded that to the same address as where the product used to be (I disabled it for now)
http://www.4x4direct.co.za/shop/led-...watt-p-367.htm

That did not work
Then I created a 301 redirect in the /shop htaccess file where the SEO script also is, I placed it under "# All other pages"
Code:
Redirect 301 /led-bar-c-15/led-super-bar-202-8640-lumens-96-watt-p-367.htm  
http://www.4x4direct.co.za/shop/led-bar-c-15/
I also tried
Code:
rewritecond %{http_host} ^/led-bar-c-15/led-super-bar-202-8640-lumens-96-watt-p-367.htm [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.4x4direct.co.za/shop/led-bar-c-15/$1 [r=301,nc]
None of above works. The site just redirect me to a page with message "Sorry, the product was not found."

What is the correct way of doing this?