Changing a folder name in on my site - redirect?

I will explain this using an example:

Say my site is www.mysite.com

and I have a folder www.mysite.com/folder1

There are files in folder1 called file1.html file2.htm

I have some links to www.mysite.com/folder1

Now I want to change the name of folder1 to folder2.

I do this and the files file1.html file2.htm get reindexed.

To keep counting the links to folder one, can I redirect www.mysite.com/folder1 to www.mysite.com/folder2 in .htaccess using a 301 redirect?

thanks.

 

There is nothing wrong to setup 301 redirection from your folder1 to folder2.

Kailash