my problem with .htaccess !

Hello,
i want redirect my forum folder to root but have problem .

i want redirect http://www.mydomain.com/forum to http://www.mydomain.com


<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^forum(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

i upload this code to my .htaccess ( root folder ) all working but big problem !
when i go to http://www.mydomain.com/forum/forum1343.html firefox show me error " Firefox can't find the server at www.mydomain.com1343.html. " !!

but similar this link (http://www.mydomain.com/forum/thread2342.html ) redirect to (http://www.mydomain.com/thread2342.html ) so working fine . mean i want also redirect http://www.mydomain.com/forum/forum1343.html to http://www.mydomain.com/forum1343.html )


please Help me..!

 

Try
RewriteRule ^forum/(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com$1 [L,R=301]

 

find out the help on web or the apache tutorial where I had notice it.

 

working BUT with this RewriteRule :

RewriteRule ^forum/(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

thanks

 

Ohhh, I missed that.