how to redirect www.mysite.com to www.mysite.com/forum

Hello
can anyone help me with setting up a redirect to folder
for example

i want to redirect www.mysite.com to www.mysite.com/forum

can anyone please paste a code for .htaccess file or tell me any other way to do it

thank you

 

Something like this?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ http://www.mysite.com/forum [R=301]

Code (markup):

If '/forum' is a directory, then it's more efficient to redirect to '/forum/' (i.e. with trailing slash).

Cryo.

 

can you please explain this? I didnt get what you mean by if forum is a directory

 

Is '/forum' a directory? Or is it a script? If it is a directory (i.e. contains index.php) then you should use the form '/forum/'.

If you don't follow what I'm on about, don't worry about it, your site will still work fine.

Cryo.