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Asked: 2026-05-18T01:41:14+00:00

I want accesses to e.g. www.thisdomain.com/docs/path1/path2 to redirect to www.thatdomain.com/path1/path2 (Note that docs is

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I want accesses to e.g. http://www.thisdomain.com/docs/path1/path2 to redirect to http://www.thatdomain.com/path1/path2

(Note that docs is not a part of the new path)

I have the following on http://www.thisdomain.com:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^docs/* http://www.domain.com/ [R=301,L]

If I access http://www.thisdomain.com/docs, it directs to http://www.thatdomain.com, but if I access a child-path like http://www.thisdomain.com/docs/path1/path2 it fails. Is it possible for the redirect to intercept the child-path access and redirect as I need? If so, any pointers?

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  1. Editorial Team

    With regular expressions, * means any number of the previous atom, which will match /docs and /docs/. Try this:

    RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^docs$ http://www.domain.com/ [R=301,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^docs/(.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L,QSA]

    (QSA is query string append, so /docs/foo?bar=baz won’t lose the ?bar=baz.)

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