Redirecting Certain Requests into Subdir with htaccess

I'm launching a new site on WordPress but would like all of my old links to remain active. To make this possible I've moved my present site into开发者_运维百科 a subdirectory (/oldsite) and installed the new wordpress site directly in root.

How would I go about redirectin any url that matches the old path style into the /oldsite directory so that:

http://example.com/stories/read/4231/some-story-title

is automatically redirected to

http://example.com/oldsite/stories/read/4231/some-story-title

The same would go for many other domain patterns like:

http://example.com/exclusives becoming http://example.com/oldsite/exclusives and a few more.

I don't want all requests to go into the /oldsite directory, since I will rely onmy WordPress instance in root.

.htaccess is still somewhat cryptic to me, so I would appreciate any direction.

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Something like the following should work.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(stories|exclusives)/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* /oldsite/%1 [R=301,L]

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Try this one

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(example.com)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /oldsite/%2%{REQUEST_URI} [QSA,L]

It will not actually redirect .. It will internally run from oldsite folder

If u want to redirect then add [R=301,L] to RewriteRule