Tumblr redirect page not working?

[Alan F]

It sounds like you're doing everything correctly. The only thing that I can suggest is that before you try creating the Redirect page, make absolutely certain that your blog does not already have a page whose name matches what you're putting into the 'Page URL' field of the 'Create A Page' dialog box.

If a page already exists at that URL, the 'Create A Page' dialog will fail silently. It doesn't warn you that the page already exists, it doesn't warn you that you can't alter the type (Standard, Custom or Redirect) of an existing page, it just behaves as if it did what you asked it to do -- but doesn't actually do it.