apache - Htaccess Redirect URL with two forward slashes (not double) won't work

Question

I want to redirect from one domain to a new domain. At the same time, the URL structure has changed.

• Old: https://www.olddomain.com/parentpage/oldtitle/
• New: https://www.newdomain.com/newtitle

This is wordpress, and I placed this code above the Wordpress stuff, as well as tested it here: https://htaccess.madewithlove.be/

1. I tried this, which doesn't work:

   Redirect 301 /parentpage/title https://www.newdomain.com/newtitle
   

2. Also, when testing it at https://htaccess.madewithlove.be/, I do have this redirect:

   Redirect 301 /parentpage https://www.newdomain.com/parentpage
   

   The tester would skip my preferred redirect above, and use this one, leaving me with this, which does not exist:

   https://www.newdomain.com/parentpage/oldtitle
   

   Even when I place the preferred redirect above this one. I need both, unfortunately.

3. Have also tried the following RewriteRules (not all at the same time)

   ReWriteRule https://www.olddomain.com/parentpage/oldtitle/ https://www.newdomain.com/newtitle
   ReWriteRule /parentpage/oldtitle/ https://www.newdomain.com/newtitle
   ReWriteRule "https://www.olddomain.com/parentpage/oldtitle/" "https://www.newdomain.com/newtitle"
   

I think it has something to do with that second forward slash separating the parentpage name and page title, but I can't figure out how to fix it.

Answer 1

In RewriteRule it wouldn't match http or https in it, you may try following.

please make sure you clear your browser cache before testing your URLs.

RewriteEngine ON
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www.)olddomain.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/parentage/oldtitle/?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.newdomain.com/newtitle [R=301,L]