Redirecting old site / subfolders to new site / subfolders - apache

Question

I am attempting to write some redirects and have stumbled on my final step of redirecting folders.
I have an old site with the following structure,
example.com
example.com/example
example.com/example/example
example.com/example/example
(with the domain examples.com parked and redirecting to this site)
And a new site (the domain unparked),
examples.com
examples.com/examples/new
examples.com/examples/examples/updated
examples.com/examples/examples/sample
Using a traditional 301 on the original site as per the below simply redirects to root
redirect 301 /example/ http:www.examples.com/examples/new/
it will not point to the correct subfolder
As a short term I have used the below to redirect all links to the root (on the old server) but it would be ideal to push them all to their exact locations
RedirectMatch 301 ^/example/.*$ http://www.examples.com/
I'm obviously missing something simple so any suggestions are appreciated.

Answer 1

Try this:
RedirectMatch 301 /example(.*) http://examples.com/examples/new/$1
RedirectMatch 301 /example/example(.*) http://examples.com/examples/examples/$1
Example #1: http://oldsite.com/example/XXXX should redirect to http://newsite.com/examples/new/XXXX
Example #2: http://oldsite.com/example/example/UPDATE should redirect to http://newsite.com/examples/examples/UPDATE
ok if those above don't work..try this..
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} oldsite\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^example/?$ http://newsite.com/examples/new [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} oldsite\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^example/example/([^/]+)/?$ http://newsite.com/examples/examples/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>