Title: htaccess redirect problem
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# htaccess redirect problem

 *  [ibenick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ibenick/)
 * (@ibenick)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-redirect-problem-1/)
 * I changed my blog today so that it loads out of /blog rather than the root of
   my domain. I left all the files in the root though and just configured WP to 
   pull from there. Everything is working great, including the redirects to the 
   new URLs.
 * The problem I’m having, is that I now need my root domain to forward to /forum
   without breaking any of the redirections going on for the old links.
 * This is the current code in my .htaccess file that is working.
 *     ```
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
       ```
   
 * Every thing I’ve tried to add to that to make the root forward to /forum, breaks
   the link forwarding from my old URL structure to the new one, post WP move.
 * For example, my old links looked like this:
 * [http://backcountrypost.com/?p=1702](http://backcountrypost.com/?p=1702)
 * And my new links look like this:
 * [http://backcountrypost.com/blog/vermilion-cliffs/coyote-buttes-north-january-2012/](http://backcountrypost.com/blog/vermilion-cliffs/coyote-buttes-north-january-2012/)
 * That all goes off without a hitch until I do anything to forward request for 
   backcountrypost.com to backcountrypost.com/forum. I’ve tried adding code to htaccess,
   which I’m not very familiar with and I have also tried creating a simple index.
   php redirect in the root. Either way breaks the old links from forwarding to 
   the new links.
 * I’ve spent about 10 hours now trying to make this go. Please help!

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 * Last reply from: [ibenick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ibenick/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-redirect-problem-1/)
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