.htaccess redirect from user to new subdomain - .htaccess

I'm trying to redirect all links for a site that looks like: www.domain.com/~me to subdomain.newdomain.org/. I only have access to the .htaccess file under my subfolder on domain.com and not the root .htaccess file. I can get it so that I redirect links like www.domain.com/~me/page2.html to the root subdomain.newdomain.org or to subdomain.newdomain.org/~me/page2.html, but I can't figure out how to get to subdomain.newdomain.com/page2.html. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (Ideally the user would still see www.domain.com/~me, but this is not entirely necessary.)

You must select the part after ~me in a capture group and append that to your new domain
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^~me/(.+) http://subdomain.newdomain.org/$1 [L]

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If the pages were placed in the same folder, I could do something like this:
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I have a site https://sitename.com/web (example). So, full path to page is sitename.com/web/index.php. On ftp server there is folder /web which also contain second page file - index-2.php. How to avoid creating /web-2/ folder and redirect index-2.php to sitename.com/web-2 ?
Easy, create an .htaccess file inside the root folder of your site, then add the following lines to it:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^web-2$ index-2.php [QSA,L,NC]
This site might help you with htaccess:
https://www.htaccessredirect.net/
A nice tutorial on .htaccess files also below:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-htaccess-file

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An example of what I am looking for is as follows: http://www.starbucks.ca/store-locator
Any idea how starbucks is doing this? It isn't making a separate folder and index for every page is it?
Thanks in advance!
Jason
You can use URL rewriting to do this. You can create a .htaccess file, place it in the root directory of your website with the following content (as an example):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^tutorial/([0-9]+)/$ index.php?tutorial=$1
RewriteRule ^page/store-locator/$ index.php?page=store-locator
RewriteRule ^$ index.php
These are some basic rules that tell the web server to rewrite a URL without .php to a URL that does have .php.
In the above example, when you are visiting example.com/tutorial/3/, it will actually visit example.com/index.php?tutorial=3 and then your index.php will display the contents. It's similar for the store-locator page.

ideas for a 301 redirect wildcards?

I'm having some trouble in finding an answer for a 301 redirect problem. The story goes like this:
I used to have a German language news site at www.punkto.ro. Every new article created with the site's CMS had the form: punkto.ro/articles/title-1234.html, where the 1234 is replaced by the article's number in the database.
For several reasons I had to redesign and opted for wordpress, which I placed in the root. I created a subdomain archive.punkto.ro and replaced the url variable "punkto.ro" in a config.php file with "archive.punkto.ro". Then I moved the site files to the subdirectory "archive". It works fine.
Of course, old article links in google now lead to a 404 response. To be sure, I also indicated the location of the archives on the 404, so people can go look there.
Now to the redirect: what I want to achieve is that when a user clicks a link in google punkto.ro/articles/title-1234.html, he/she should be redirected to archive.punkto.ro/articles/title-1234.html.
The strange stuff is that I can't find the folder "articles" in my file manager (cpanel OR ftp)... Does anybbody have any idea as to how the .htacces should look like?
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New link: http://www.archive.punkto.ro/articles/Staatschef_Basescu:_Rumaenien_einschliesslich_gesetzmaessig_fuer_Grexit_gewappnet-4169.html
I don't think you have to create the .htacccess-file in the "articles"-folder. Just create it in the main folder.
I hope this will work for you:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?punkto.ro$
RewriteRule ^articles/(.*)$ http://www.archive.punkto.ro/articles/$1 [L,NC,R=301]
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.htaccess to redirect "/whatever" links to a subdirectory

I coded a website assuming the test server would be something like (http://test.domain.com), however, it ended up being at http://www.domain.com/test. I don't have access to the hosting panel to create a subdomain, whatsoever.
The .htaccess file has to reside in /test/ and all links such as href="/css/style.css" should load from "/test/css/style.css.
Is this possible?
if you do something like this..
RewriteRule ^css/style.css$ /test/css/style.css [L]
as you can see, you can only redirect from that directory (where the .htaccess is at) and under, not above
so, i don't think it'll work, because you need access to / and not just /test/

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