Mass 301 redirect from a sub-domain - using Joomla or htaccess

[JohnW-UK]

How is best to mass redirect old domains - Listing the URL's in htaccess?

We are looking to use Joomla as a CMS - transferring a blog from a sub-domain to the main site and want to 301 all the sub domain blog posts - any ideas?

[Francisco_Meza]

Yes, this is the way I do it: Listing the URL's in .htaccess. You should be fine like that.

Here is an example:

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.domain.com/newpage.html

Notice that the domain is not in the 1st part http://www.domain.com/oldpage.html

[JohnW-UK]

Why is the domain only in one part?

Is there a best practise way to do this - I was going to watch the webinar about the transfer from seomoz to moz...

So would I create an htaccess file and put it in the subdomain folder blog.domain.com to redirect to domain.com/blog - also how would I create a wildcard redirect for pages I might miss i.e. blog.domain.com/page - to domain.com/blog and these redone pages should I 301 to the blog home or just a 404 page?