How to make a redirect only for the second level of nesting?

Question

htaccess

I can’t understand how you can get such a redirect so that when you go to https://site.com/first/second/ there is a redirect to https://site.com/first/target/, but at the same time what would happen when you go to https://site.com/first/second/ there was no redirect to https://site.com/first/second/third/ .

I thought something like this would work, but it didn't.

RewriteRule ^/first/second/$ https://site.com/first/target/ [R=301,L]

Answer 1

RewriteRule ^/

This will work if you put the rule directly in <VirtualHost>.
And in .htaccess, the input RewriteRule receives a line already without /.

RewriteRule ^first/second/$ https://site.com/first/target/ [R=301,L]