How to make a redirect in .htaccess RedirectMatch?

Question

htaccess

You need to make a redirect from
/(.*)/cat_1/ to /cat_1/
But so that the blog does not get into the brackets.

In fact, a redirect from any combination of characters except /blog/cat_1/
/moscow/cat_1/ - redirect
/spb/cat_1/ - redirect
/orel/cat_1/ - redirect
/blog/cat_1/ - no redirect

Answer 1

RedirectMatch 301 ^/(?!blog/).*(/cat_1/) $1