From "domain.com" to "domain.com/blog"

I have a website at domain.com of which the static pages are indexed thoroughly by Google. I recently reindexed all the pages in Wordpress and it was installed in domain.com/blog.

How do I tell Google via htaccess to go from all pages in domain.com site e.g "domain.com/folder/subfolder/page.shtml" or "domain.com/folder/" except the "domain.com/forum" to the new website at "domain.com/blog"? What is the safest way that won't hurt SEO and preserve my rank in SR? Thanks in advance!

 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^forum/?$
rewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/blog/$1 [R=301,L]

 

Thanks! I've tried it but http://www.domain.com or http://domain.com doesn't redirect to http://www.domain.com/blog/

The http://www.domain.com/blog/ and http://www.domain.com/forum/ is accessible though. Any ideas?

 

Have you added RewriteEngine on ?

 

No, I just delete everything in the htaccess and replace it with your given code. How to I add that to the lines? Here is the current content of htaccess before modification. I currently use .shtml for all my static pages, hence the includes, etc and use PHP files as include. I guess these can be omitted since the Wordpress files are all PHP right? Thanks so much!

 

Please try this:

 

Hi again, it seems to work! But one last thing, all my "recent topics" i.e the included php snippet from the forum came out weird. Is that because some of the existing

and

I tried to remove either but the result is still the same. The recent topics section displays:

I used this code to display 15 recent topics in the sidebar.

You're really a great help! Thanks so much!