Newbie .htaccess redirect question

I added a redirect in an .htaccess file that works fine. However I want to redirect all file accesses to the specific directory to a "directory" location on another server not including the filename.

For instance, I set up a redirect as follows

Redirect /joe http://www.yahoo.com

This redirects all files that are called from /joe to yahoo but it appends the filename. So if someone tries to access /joe/smith.html they will be redirected to http://www.yahoo.com/smith.html

I'm sure I'm missing something basic but can someone explain how to always redirect to http://www.yahoo.com no matter what is accessed in the original directory?

Thanks
David

>> So if someone tries to access /joe/smith.html they will be redirected to http://www.yahoo.com/smith.html

So do you want to include the filename or not?

If mod_rewrite was compiled in, try the following code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /joe
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yahoo.com/$1 [R,L]

http://www.yourdomain.com/joe/ to http://www.yahoo.com/
http://www.yourdomain.com/joe/smith.html to http://www.yahoo.com/smith.html