mod_rewrite / comprehensive redirects

[Zbigniew Szalbot]

Dear all,

I know this is not Apache's mailing list, but there are so many experts 
here that I hope someone can help me. I have the following rule:

RewriteRule ^\.*$ /new/index.html

This redirects the base domain to a file called index.html in 'new' folder.

However, what I would really like to achieve is to redirect every php 
file to /new/index.html, which currently does not work.

I tried modifying the rule like this:

RewriteRule ^\.php$ /new/index.html

However, this rule matches nothing (or at least does not redirect).

How should I accomplish this? I just need to redirect all hits to 
/new/index.html until a new site is ready.

Many, many thanks in advance!

-- 
Zbigniew Szalbot
www.LCWords.com
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