How to form the end of the url of the redirected page?

Question

htaccess

For subcategory redirect it says:

RewriteRule ^ekonomia/svyaz/?(.*)$ http://site.ru/svyaz/$1 [R=301,L]

The problem is that if the slug of an article in the ekonomia category starts with svyaz, for example svyaznoi, then the redirected link looks like this:
http://site.ru/svyaz/noi
And it should be site.ru/ekonomia/svyaznoi. How to fix it?

Answer 1

Use negation!

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^ekonomia/svyaz/svyaz.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ekonomia/svyaz/?(.*)$ http://site.ru/svyaz/$1 [R=301,L]