301 Redirects? Any Experience?

I have a site on a subdomain that has some decent PR but have purchased a domain name that I want to point at.

What is the best method to use to point that newly registered domain to my subdomain?

What I am afraid of is triggering a duplicate filter and loosing PR.

Will PR show immediately or will I have to wait for an update?

 

.htaccess redirect will redirect your links, PR, indexed links, etc. Its like the best and only way to do it.

 

I wana redirect mysite.com to mysite.com/forums .

Can ne1 provide a Search engine friendly way to do this ?

 

if I understand you correctly you only want the index to redirect?

just put this in the index (change the extension to .php too, if you can and it isn't already .php)

<?
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.newurl.com");
?>

Code (markup):

 

Why not just run the forums off mysite.com if it's just going to redirect. Why have a /forums/?

 

It will be too much work to shift the forums and I dont wana screw it up for 10k members.. m not good at designing

 

In my case I am refering to how to do this with a subdomain?