htaccess redirect for phpBB Forum not working

Question

I'm having issues trying to implement a redirect for my phpBB forum. Basically the forum used to be on the root and now it's inside a /foro/ folder.

I already have in place some rules for my Wordpress blog that work perfectly:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

The thing is that if the user used to go to:

http://www.coliseoweb.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3567

I want them now to go to:

http://www.coliseoweb.com/foro/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3567

Keeping all the same variables. I've tried adding this:

RewriteRule ^/viewforum.php(.*) /foro/viewforum.php$1 [R=301,L]

And also this:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/viewtopic.php(.*)$ http://www.coliseoweb.com/foro/viewtopic.php$1

But I have no luck.

Maybe they are correct but I'm adding them in the wrong place? Maybe I need something else?

Help would be great!

Thanks!

Javier

Answer 1

Ah sorry! Your regex doesn't need the leading slash. Try:

RewriteRule ^viewforum.php(.*) /foro/viewforum.php$1 [R=301,L]

Answer 2

You should better replace the code RewriteRule . /index.php [L] RewriteRule . /index.php [L] on your code with RewriteRule ^viewforum.php([^/]*) /foro/viewforum.php$1 [R=301,L]

Now, if you need to have both working... Then you could try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^viewforum.php([^/]*) /foro/viewforum.php$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]