Please help with .htaccess redirects

I have my website www.askwhiz.com
The blog is at http://www.askwhiz.com/blog/

I used to have a permanent redirect earlier. from www.askwhiz.com to www.askwhiz.com/blog/

Accidently it got deleted.

Now when i add the redirect. everything redirects to the blog folder which is http://www.askwhiz.com/blog/

Even when i click http://www.askwhiz.com/forum/ i goto the blog folder.

help apprciated.

below is my .htaccess data

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

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^askwhiz.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.askwhiz.com$
RewriteRule ^.*$ "http\:\/\/www\.askwhiz\.com\/blog\/" [R=301,L]

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Try removing this bit

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^askwhiz.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.askwhiz.com$
RewriteRule ^.*$ "http\:\/\/www\.askwhiz\.com\/blog\/" [R=301,L]

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It is easy, you can even see it [R=301, L], 301 redirects, just remove

And you are done.

 

actually, i want my homepage to go to the blog directory.
I am looking http://www.askwhiz.com to redirect to http://www.askwhiz.com/blog/

 

try this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?askwhiz.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?askwhiz.com.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ blog/index.php [L]

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@lachrymologist
that code just gives me a blank index page and doesnt redirect when i type homepage url.
i really need help on this.
I ve started to lose traffic and pages are getting unindexed.