htaccess question

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Redirect forums to forum dir

RewriteRule ^forums.* http://www.yourdomain.com/forum [L,R=301]

If you want to re-direct your named boards to forum folder this will work for you.
in your named baords root .htaccess file place this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([/]+)$ forum/$1 [L,R=301]

make sure you test the .htaccess re-direction rules thoroughly before making your site live, you can try using this link to test your redirects:
http://www.webconfs.com/redirect-check.php