Redirection on htaccess, from subdomain

Question

We moved our site from customize CMS to wordpress. It is multi-language website with couple of languages.

Example of page from old site, and how it is on the new site:

• on the previous CMS the languages was set like that: ru.domain.com/articles/587
• now, on Wordpress (with WMPL) it will be: domain.com/ru/gelatti-de-marco-2/

There are something like 10 pages that we need to do redirect from the old subdomain to the new subdomain, how we can do it from htaccess file?

Answer 1

Place this rule in your DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess file of ru.domain.com :

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =ru.domain.com
RewriteRule ^articles/587/?$ http://domain.com/ru/gelatti-de-marco-2/ [L,NC,R=302]

Once you verify it is working fine, replace R=302 to R=301 . Avoid using R=301 (Permanent Redirect) while testing your mod_rewrite rules.