htaccess redirect not working

hello,

can anyone plz offer suggestions as to what i'm doing wrong when trying to edit my htaccess file to redirect affiliate links? i'm new at this but thought that the steps were simple enough even for me to do, BUT .... after testing my changes, i still see my affiliate URL in the browser window.


i've created a sub-folder called, "Temp" and that is the htaccess file i'm editing (not the one in my root directory). in this sub-folder, i have multiple files that i wish to re-direct, but i'm not having much luck out of the gate. what am i missing? ...


the syntax i'm using is:
redirect 301 /[filename] [full affiliatelink]

my html editor is FrontPage 2003 and i've also edited the following folders to read "Options +FollowSymLinks" (not that it seems to matter)

_vti_bin
_vti_bin / _vti_adm
_vti_bin / _vti_aut


anyone ....?
plz ... ?

You ma try to delete all te files & again reload them to server of locla host into webroot