Please help with redirect issue

[tama]

Hi all,

I've been searching through copious threads and am having a little trouble with a simple redirect issue. Seems every thread leaves me worried about getting banned. What I want to do isn't in the slightest way malicious so I'm stumped.

OK, all I want to do is take /mypage.html and move it to be a directory index page - i.e. /mypage/

From there I am expanding the subject and will add lots of pages in the /mypage/ directory i.e. /mypage/page1.html

What is the best (read "search engine friendly") way to redirect /mypage.html to be /mypage/?

thanks in advance...

[settozero]

Hi tama,

Put a permanent redirection form your old URL to the new URL, like this(for Apache server):

RedirectMatch permanent ^/mipage.html$ http://www.example.com/newfolder/mipage.html

and update the links to mipage.html, pointing them to the new location.

[tama]

Thanks settozero. I trust this won't incur a duplicate content penalty if I remove the page from it's original location.