moving established forum to a subfolder

[turbosatan]

I know that to move to a subfolder i basically copy all of the files to that new folder iewww.mysite/forums and then change some config bits here and there and i am good to go

i found https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=150200&highlight=move+subfolder
which seemed to explain it all pretty well.

My problem is that i have about 4000 indexed pages and my ranking is quite important to me.

How the hell do i setup a 301 redirect for all of those pages? i cant face doing it manually there has to be another way possibly some sort of software which can help

Your ideas as always are very welcome

--------------- Added 1208009097 at 1208009097 ---------------

i have been told this might work

Add the following line to your .htaccess file:

RedirectMatch ^/$ http://www.example.org/blog/


although i am not htaccess fluent so i dont know

any suggestions?

[turbosatan]

still looking for help on this if anyone has the answers

thanks