How To 301 Redirect Wordpress Posts To New Link Structure Using .htaccess?

Hello! there,

I have a wordpress blog setup the following way using permalinks feature:

http://www.mydomain.com/blog-post.html
http://www.mydomain.com/blog-post-2.html
http://www.mydomain.com/blog-post-3.html

and I've now decided to add the following structure:

http://www.mydomain.com/read/blog-post.html
http://www.mydomain.com/read/blog-post-2.html
http://www.mydomain.com/read/blog-post-3.html

So how do I 301 redirect all the old links to new structure using htaccess?

I've tried many methods while doing a research on Google but still haven't found the solution. So anyone here to help me with the problem?

Thanks!!

 

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http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/permalinks-migration-plugin-for-wordpress/

Code (markup):

~ExP~

 

Thanks buddy. It works perfectly.

Cheers!!

 

.htaccess code here:

Redirect /old-url/ http://www.newurl.com/yournewurl