url forwarding?

[Jenkins]

Okay so my forums are currently located in the "www.mydomain.com/forums" directory. I want to change that to "www.mydomain.com/community" however I don't want to screw up all my backlinks and links to my site. Is there a way to "url forward" a directory? i know you can do it with a sub domain, but no sure how to do so on a directory.. ???

[Dismounted]

Add this into your .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^forums [NC]
RewriteRule ^forums/(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/community/$1 [R=301,L]