htaccess redirect question (FIXED)

[HMBeaty]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here, I did a test run a few months ago and everything went pretty good, but now, I'm just stuck at the .htaccess file since I can't remember where I got the code to use to redirect how I need it to.

Basically, I just my forums from www.mysite.com/forum/ to www.mysite.com/forums.php with my homepage at index.php.

Now, I just need to redirect all the old url's from when everything was at mysite.com/forum to the new url mysite.com/forums.php

This is how I currently have my .htaccess file but it doesn't work (at least the second bit doesn't)

RewriteEngine On
rewritecond %{http_host} ^usmilitarylife.com 
rewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.usmilitarylife.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/forum/.*$
RewriteRule ^/forum/(.+)$ http://www.usmilitarylife.com/$1 [L,R]

The first bit, don't worry about that as that just redirects all url's to www, its the 2nd bit that I'm having trouble with.

Thanks in advance

--------------- Added [DATE]1251949323[/DATE] at [TIME]1251949323[/TIME] ---------------

Ok, got it fixed by adding a .htaccess file to the forum directory with these contents...

redirect 301 /forum http://www.usmilitarylife.com

It's not how I did it last time, but it works