Redirect from one website to another and keep directory-CodePudding

The blog section of a website moved from a subdomain to a directory of the main domain. I need to redirect all users visiting blog.site.com to site.com/blog/ and the directory someone enters should be kept when forwarding, e.g. blog.site.com/post/welcome should point to site.com/blog/post/welcome

I treid adding this to my .htaccess file which I placed in the subdomain's directory via FTP:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog.herderzeitung.de$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.blog.herderzeitung.de$
RewriteRule (.*)$ https://herderzeitung.de/blog/$1 [R=301,L]

However, this doesn't seem to be working. I was also wondering, what the most SEO friendly way is to achieve this (the site permanently moved to another domain).

Thanks in advance!

CodePudding user response：

Try

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}       ^blog\.herderzeitung\.de$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}  ^www\.blog\.herderzeitung\.de$
RewriteRule  ^/?(.*)$ https://herderzeitung.de/blog/$1 [R=302,L]

I've escaped the dots, and anchored&normalized the pattern. Also switched it to temporary redirects (302); once you know it works, then change it to 301 again for SEO reasons.

And yes, as far as i know 301s are the best method for retaining your search rankings and the like.

CodePudding user response：

This seems to work:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://herderzeitung.de/blog/$1 [L,R=301]

Thank you everyone!