RewriteRule not working for WordPress category

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I’m trying to write a RewriteRule for redirecting traffic after I have changed the name of some categories in WordPress.

The old URL looked like this…

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http://www.example.com/category/fitness/

I want it to redirect to… 

http://www.example.com/category/health-and-lifestyle/

I can get it to work using the following rule, but it only ever rewrites the main category, and doesn’t do the same for paginated pages .i.e fitness/page/2/, fitness/page/3/ etc 

RewriteRule category/fitness/*? category/health-and-lifestyle/ [R=301,L]

Can anyone help me get this working so that it makes the following… 

http://www.example.com/category/fitness/
http://www.example.com/category/fitness/page/2/
http://www.example.com/category/fitness/page/3/

rewrite to… 

http://www.example.com/category/health-and-lifestyle/
http://www.example.com/category/health-and-lifestyle/page/2/
http://www.example.com/category/health-and-lifestyle/page/3/

Thanks a lot 🙂

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  1. You are using incorrect regex in category/fitness/*?.

    Try this rule:

    RewriteRule ^category/fitness/(.*)$ category/health-and-lifestyle/$1 [R=301,L,NC]