301 directory to subdomain but maindomain still usable?

This one might be a bit tricky and I'm not sure if this could work...

http://www.rabbit.com/cat/mouse/title ->
http://archives.rabbit.com/cat/mouse/title

I have an old wordpress blog but I upgrade to a new script and everything that is in http://www.rabbit.com/cat/ should be redirected. Nothing else because I will keep on using the domain.

Here would be my approach would be great if someone could help me out:

1. My idea was to make a directory www.rabbit.com/cat/ and put the .htaccess in there.

2. I'm not sure about this here but every time someone follows a link to this /cat/ folder they should be redirected to the same folder just on the archives subdomain.

I tried a lot to mess around with mod_rewrite but I don't get it right. Any help would be great.

 

Can anyone please tell me if this is possible at all and I will continue trying to sort it out...

 

Hi,

I would try this :

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.rabbit.com$
RewriteRule ^cat\/(.*) http://archives.rabbit.com/cat/$1  [QSA,L,R=301]

Code (markup):

Jean-Luc

 

You're the man Jean-Luc!
Thanks a lot!