switching to subdomain - link issue

[mark58]

we need to switch to a subdomain (various reasons that we are forced to do it)

is there a way to redirect the old links to the new subforum? we don't want to lose all the search engine links

going from

http://www.site.com/forums

to

http://forums.site.com/

anyone know the best way to successfully handle this situations?

[Jake Bunce]

Create a .htaccess file in the old directory with this code:

Redirect / http://forums.site.com/

This will redirect all requests using the new base URL. But if the new URL and old URL are the same directory then this won't work.