htaccess mod rewrite w/ dynamic match

Question

I am moving a blog from one server to another and adding a subdomain, so the path will change from -

http://www.example.com/queen/index.php/2009/winners-and-losers/

to -

http://blogs.example.com/queen/2009/winners-and-losers/

What mod_rewrite rules would I add to the .htaccess under /queen/ on www.example.com to 301 redirect to the new http://blogs.example.com/queen/?

What is changing is the 'www' > 'blogs' and the 'index.php/' is going away.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Off the top of my head:

RewriteRule ^./index.php(.)$ http://blog.foo.com/queen$1 [R=301]

Answer 2

Try this rule:

RewriteRule ^index\.php/(.*) http://blogs.example.com/queen/$1 [L,R=301]

And if that folder is also accessible through other host names but the rule should only be applied within www.example.com:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =www.example.com
RewriteRule ^index\.php/(.*) http://blogs.example.com/queen/$1 [L,R=301]