.htaccess redirect to subdomain

Question

I'm tying to set up the scenario, if someone visits website.com/blog/ they are redirected to blog.website.com.

I used this code in my .htaccess file to achieve some other redirection (from .net to .com) previously:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on  
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.|blog.)?website.net(.*) [NC]  
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.website.com/$1 [R=301,L]

It may also be relevant that I have an ErrorDocument 404 in my apache configuration file.

To solve my my problem I tried this:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on  
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.|blog.)?website.net(.*) [NC]  
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.website.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?website(.com|.net)/blog/?$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://blog.website.com/ [L]

This code however is not working. My error document is still handling the request (the /blog/ directory doesn't exist). I tried moving this new code above the ErrorDocument in the apache conf file, but the same thing occurred.

It's no doubt a syntactical error, any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Answer 1

in the .htaccess file in the root of your website.com directory

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase / 

RedirectMatch 301 ^/blog/(.*)$ http://blog.website.com/$1