301 Redirection using htaccess Regex

Question

I want to redirect my 301 URLs on some other URls. Below is the cases:

xyz.com/html/german = xyz.com/de
xyz.com/german = xyz.com/de

one more case :

xyz.com/html/german/subpage.html = xyz.com/de/subpage

Any one help on this?

I tried with Regex but it is not working:

Here is what I have tried :

RewriteRule ^/de/([^/.]+)$ html/german/$1 [L]

Answer 1

Your rule is actually doing reverse. Try these redirect rules:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/(html/)?german/?$ /de

RedirectMatch 301 ^/(?:html/)?german/([^.]+)(?:\.html)?$ /de/$1

Answer 2

Remove the leading slash from Rewrite pattern :

Try:

RewriteRule ^de/?$ html/german/ [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^de/([^/.]+)/?$ html/german/$1 [NC,L]