Redirecting A Subfolder Via .htaccess

[kfordham281]

So I'm a total newbie when it comes to .htaccess files for the most part. I'm hoping someone can help me out here. Here's the issue:

 

What I'm trying to do is redirect all requests on http://www.cpadventures.com/forum to http://cpadventures.com/forum . I've read up on .htaccess but it's a little greek to me. I know that I should put the .htaccess file in the root of the forum folder. What I'm unsure about is the code to do that. Currently there is not a .htaccess file so it would be starting one from scratch. If anyone could help I would genuinely appreciate it!

[TCH-Thomas]

Instead of going this route with creating the htaccess file, have you tried the redirect option in cpanel?

[kfordham281]

I didn't know that was there, but I just tried. I get the following error when trying to do what I need:

 

You cannot redirect forum to http://cpadventures.com/forum as will cause a redirection loop because /home/site_path/public_html/forum is at the same place as /home/site_path/public_html/forum.

[TCH-Bruce]

This should work. Place this in the .htaccess file in your public_html folder.

 

>Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^cpadventures\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://cpadventures.com/$1 [R=301,L]