Had an issue where I need to redirect old URLs, but not disable the mod_rewrite for page structure.

redirect 301 /home.html http://www.url.com/

It needs to live on the Symphony 2.0 .htaccess file

### Symphony 2.0.x ###
Options +FollowSymlinks -Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

 RewriteEngine on

 RewriteBase /

 ### DO NOT APPLY RULES WHEN REQUESTING "favicon.ico"
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} favicon.ico [NC]
 RewriteRule .* - [S=14]

 ### IMAGE RULES 
 RewriteRule ^image\/(.+\.(jpg|gif|jpeg|png|bmp))$ extensions/jit_image_manipulation/lib/image.php?param=$1 [L,NC]

 ### CHECK FOR TRAILING SLASH - Will ignore files
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [L,R=301]

 ### ADMIN REWRITE
 RewriteRule ^symphony\/?$ index.php?mode=administration&%{QUERY_STRING} [NC,L]

 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
 RewriteRule ^symphony(\/(.*\/?))?$ index.php?symphony-page=$1&mode=administration&%{QUERY_STRING} [NC,L]

 ### FRONTEND REWRITE - Will ignore files and folders
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteRule ^(.*\/?)$ index.php?symphony-page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

</IfModule>
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