htaccess Redirect subdirectory and its contents

Question

Here is my initial redirect rule:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^sub1\.myinitialdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^sub2\.myinitialdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

That basically redirects the entire website, except for sub1 and sub2 to the new domain.

However, I've got a wordpress install at /wordpress and I've got the following rule in place to redirect all of the articles:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} wordpress 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.com/blog/$1 [R,L]

But even though the articles are being redirected correctly, the main /wordpress directory is not being redirected correctly. It's being redirected to https://www.mydomain.com/blog/wordpress

I need to be able to combine the rules, but make sure that /worpress and any articles within that are being redirected to https://www.mydomain.com/blog/

Answer 1

You can use this rule to redirect everything from within /wordpress/.htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.com/blog/$1 [NC,L,NE,R=302]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(sub1|sub2)\.myinitialdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,NE,R=302]

Make sure this is first rule in /wordpress/.htaccess file.