Redirecting a forum page to a blog page

[digitalelise]

Hi guys,

I am trying to use .htaccess to redirect an old thread to a blog post.

This is what I am trying to use but i cant get it to work:
RewriteRule ^forum/showthread.php?1303-Laser-Hair-Removal-Practitioners-List http://behairfree.org/laser-hair-removal-clincs-list

I would like to redirect from here:

http://behairfree.org/forum/showthread.php?1303-Laser-Hair-Removal-Practitioners-List
to
http://behairfree.org/laser-hair-removal-clincs-list/

Any help would be much appreciated as I have tried redirect 301 and cant get that to work either.
Thanks in Advance for any help I might get.

[vBNinja]

Try

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^showthread\.php\?1303 http://behairfree.org/laser-hair-removal-clincs-list/ [R=301,NC,L]


Place that in the htaccess file located in the /forum directory

[digitalelise]

Try

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^showthread\.php\?1303 http://behairfree.org/laser-hair-removal-clincs-list/ [R=301,NC,L]


Place that in the htaccess file located in the /forum directory

Thanks for your help vBNinja

I put that in the .htaccess in the forum directory but it doesn't seem to work still.
It's odd I have never had this much trouble with redirects before.
Do I need to do anything else to make it work?