How can I correctly write a RewriteRule for such a condition?

Question

htaccess

There is an ulr like site.ru/tovar/semena-ovoschey/semena-arbuza/vostochnyj-ornament. How can I correctly write the RewriteRule to get site.ru/semena-ovoschey/semena-arbuza/vostochnyj-ornament?
Tried like this:
RewriteRule ^product/(.*)$ $1 [R=301, L]
But this rule doesn't work!

Answer 1

You have a cyclic request.
Because redirects will work again and again until after passing through .htaccess, no url changes.
In your case, you need to set the first condition more strictly.
like this

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^semena-ovoschey.*$ 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^tovar/(.*)$ 
RewriteRule ^tovar/(.*)$ $1 [R=301, L]

In this case, two conditions will be checked at once.
! - negation
^- start of line

Answer 2

Eugene, try looking for the answer here: blog.aweb.ua/301-redirect