Htaccess redirect always keeps the old path - .htaccess

I would like to make a redirect using htaccess rules to point ALL links from
mywebsite.com/subfolder1/subfolder2/...whatever-path....
to
mywebsite.com/subfolder1
But the problem is that whatever rule I use it always keeps the old path in the destination link, for example:
mywebsite.com/subfolder1/subfolder2/mypage.php
becomes
mywebsite.com/subfolder1/mypage.php
I tried all the following possibilities:
RewriteRule (.*) https://mywebsite.com/subfolder1/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^subfolder1/subfolder2/(.*)$ /subfolder1/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
RewriteRule ^/subfolder1/subfolder2/(.*)$ /subfolder1/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
Redirect 301 /subfolder1/subfolder2 https://mywebsite.com/subfolder1
RedirectMatch 301 /subfolder1/subfolder2(.*)$ /subfolder1/$1
RedirectMatch 301 ^/subfolder1/subfolder2/?$ https://mywebsite.com/subfolder1
I have placed the "Options +FollowSymLinks" and "RewriteEngine on" rules before them, but NONE of them worked.
Can someone tell what's wrong and how to find the right rule?
Thank you.


Try this
RewriteRule ^subfolder1/subfolder2/(.*)$ /subfolder1 [R=301,NC,L]
With $1you attach the content of (.*) to the redirected URL. Remove them from code and
http://mywebsite.com/subfolder1/subfolder2/whatever-path
will be
http://mywebsite.com/subfolder1

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