.htaccess 301 redirect path and all child-paths

Question

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

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

I have the following on www.thisdomain.com:

RewriteEngine on

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

If I access www.thisdomain.com/docs, it directs to www.thatdomain.com, but if I access a child-path like 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?

Thanks.

Answer 1

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.)