htaccess redirects when moving folder

I currently have a forum installed at the folder root, and would like to move it to it's own forums subfolder.

Normally a nightmare, but as the URL rewrite settings are currently:

domain.com/
[forum_title]/[thread_id]-[thread_title].html

and I'd like to change them to:

domain.com/forums/
[thread_id]-[thread_title].html

I figured it should be relatively easy.

However, I've had problems trying to set up a working install in the /forums/ subfolder.

I've tried setting up root .htaccess redirects for all the individual boards to the forum, ie:

Code:

Redirect 301 /the-lounge/ http:*//www.techwatch.co.uk/forums/

(* just to make URL visible, rather than site title)

and set up the vbseo htaccess rewrite rules in the forums subfolder.

Any suggestions of what I may be doing wrong, or whether there is an easy guide?

I figure it's just something small and silly I'm getting wrong, but I'm finding the whole redirecting to the subfolder more taxing than I expected.

Did you add the RewriteBase as forums/ ?

Great! That's all I was missing - many thanks for that whitemike.

Not a problem