Problems with htaccess and simple rewriterule on PS 1.7.6.4

[Masiorama]

Hello there, I am experiences some difficult with a simple task I did several times (on projects not leveraging on PS).

I simply need to 302 redirect a url.

The rule is this: 

RewriteRule ^en/blog$ /it/blog [L,R=302]

Which means I need to redirect www.example.com/en/blog to www.example.com/it/blog.

I put inside the htaccess in the root of the project, below the line 

# ~~end~~ Do not remove this comment, Prestashop will keep automatically the code outside this comment when .htaccess will be generated again

Inside the htaccess, above the line.. above... there is RewriteEngine on, so it should be ok to just paste my rule and it should work, afaik.

Well, the result is that the rule is totally ignored instead.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

 

edit: in case this could be an interesting detail: the url I am working on are friendly url of a module.

Edited June 15, 2020 by Masiorama (see edit history)