Common Redirects With Htaccess

Managing some common redirect scenarios with mod_rewrite and htaccess.

301 Moved Permanently

Redirect individual pages

Redirect 301 /old.html http://www.example.com/new.html

503 Redirect a page.html to error503.html

RedirectMatch 503 ^/page.html$
ErrorDocument 503 http://example.com/error503.html
Header always set Retry-After "300"  

References

How can I return a 503 status in apache without invoking external scripts