Help needed on Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools

[Martin_K]

Our site had two directories: /twx/ (wiki) and /discuss/ (forum).

I changed the forum directory to /forum, so we now have /twx/ and /forum/. I have also installed Magic SEO URLs for phpBB3 3.0 for URL rewriting.

1) I know I need a .htaccess to do a 301 redirect from /discuss/ to /forum/ for the bots, but am not sure of the exact code for this. Currently I have

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 RedirectMatch 301 ^/discuss/ http://opgo.co.uk/forum/

, but this only redirects to forum/index.php so needs changing. I guess this needs wildcards.

2) Not sure of any other way of letting the Bots know that the forum directory name has changed.

3) On Google Analytics I guess I need the same tracking code one every page I need analysing, then can analyse the site as a whole, and I can apply filters to analyse to traffic to the separate directories. There is a subdomain switch, but as I am using directories, not domains, no need to switch this on?

[Martin_K]

On point 1) I have Googled and found a better way

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://opgo.co.uk/forum/$1 [R=301,L]

This seems to redirect all old urls to the new one.