I'm moving my blog, and taking the opportunity to move it from a subdomain to a directory. Current URL structure is:

http://blog.domain.com/year/month/title.html

New structure is:

http://domain.com/blog/year/month/title/

What I've got in .htaccess is:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog\.cooklikeyourgrandmother\.com

RewriteRule ^http://blog\.(.*)\.html$ http://cooklikeyourgrandmother\.com/blog/$1/ [R=301,L]

Does that look right? And second, if there is already another rewrite block, do I need to repeat the "RewriteEngine On" directive? In other words, should it be:

RewriteEngine On

condition

condition

rule 1



condition

rule 2

or

RewriteEngine On

condition

condition

rule 1



RewriteEngine On

condition

rule 2

But this:

RewriteRule ^http://blog\.cooklikeyourgrandmother\.com/$ http://cooklikeyourgrandmother\.com/blog/ [R=301,L]

keeps giving me

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

If I redirect everything:

RewriteRule .* http://cooklikeyourgrandmother\.com/blog/ [R=301,L]

it works, so something in the match pattern isn't matching.


[edit]

In an .htaccess file, RewriteRule starts looking after the domain. The rule I wrote would have worked in an httpd.conf file.