how to redirect to old link

[gsmlover4u]

hi to all i want to know how to redirect old link to new links after change root of website
www.example.com TO www.example.com/forum

is it possible after change root link will not broke in google search how to redirect old link to new link when some one search in google

[Disco_Dave]

Something like this:

//301 Redirect Entire Directory
RedirectMatch 301 www.example.com(.*) www.example.com/forum/$1

[gsmlover4u]

Something like this:

//301 Redirect Entire Directory
RedirectMatch 301 www.example.com(.*) www.example.com/forum/$1

will you please guide to me where i place .htaccess file
in www.example.com
or www.example.com/forum in forum folder
also i am using vbseo vb version 4.2.1

[Spangle]

you can create a .htaccess file yourself, and upload it to the root of your forum.

If you are using 301 redirect Google recommends that you tell them to avoid duplicate content, and to stop their spiders crawling the old site.

You can do all this through your webmaster tools settings.

A simple 301 redirect look like this :

Redirect 301 / http://www.your new domain/

[gsmlover4u]

with this when some one search in google to my forum then he will redirect to old link of thread or post TO new link of threads or posts
or he will see not found 404?

[gsmlover4u]

no way redirect old thread link to new thread link after change root ?

[cellarius]

Google: Redirect 301 .htaccess.