Redirect not working in cpanel & htaccess

I have set up a redirect in htaccess which supposedly redirects from mywebsite.com to targetsite.com. The htaccess file looks like this:

# BEGIN Redirects RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [R=301,NC,L,QSA] # END redirects RewriteOptions inherit # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress 

Problem is that this configuration does not work at all! And mywebsite.com still brings me to mywebsite.com

Aside from the htaccess or cpanel level, are there any other underlying issues (DNS, nameserver) that might cause this redirect to fail?

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