Redirect One Multisite to Another

Question

A friend's multisite ise set up using directory structure and she just wants to have the URLs for an older subsite to a newer one, say http://www.coolstuff.foo/abcd to redirect to http://www.coolstuff.foo/zxcv

What I have tried that has not worked includes:

• setting up a redirect in cpanel
• adding an htaccess RewriteRule ^abcd/(.*)$ /zxcv/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
• trying a redirect plugin

I thought this was a 5 minute thing and I'm an hour in! I am missing something obvious for sure

Answer 1

Put this code at the beginning of the .htaccess file.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^abcd/(.*)$ /zxcv/$1 [R=301,NC,L]