Redirecting to my new server ??

I have a site up and ruuning for a year now and we have out grown it by alot so we are moving on...

I want to redirect traffic from the url to the new server ip so we minimize downtime... I also want to get the new site spider quickly by google...

From what I have read the best way is a 301 redirect.

I did that and upload the .htaccess file and I get a 500 internal server error.. I turned off friendly errors in IE so I could see the real error and it is...

Configuration Malfunction
/.htaccess: Redirect not allowed here Content-type: text/html WARNING: Internal Module Compilation Failure!
/.htaccess: Redirect not allowed here

So now what do I do ?? I am open to thoughts and suggestions. I will be changing the DNS tonight (Saturday) so need to get some thoughts together quickly.

Thanks

 

 

 

 

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