301 redirect, conflicting with RewriteRule
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We did some maintenance today, and moved our web forums from /forums into the root folder of the domain.
We put in a redirect 301 in a .htaccess file:
Redirect 301 /forums/ http://www.ourforums.com/
However, we used to have some links that contained duplicate /forums folders. I.e. www.ourforums.com/forums/forums/forum.1
Obviously the redirect from above now leads to /forum.1, which odes not exist. I would like the old link to actually point to www.ourforums.com/boards/forum.1. I attempted to use something like:
RewriteRule ^/forums/forums http://www.ourforums.com/boards/ [NC,R=301,L]
Regardless of what I tried though, the Redirect seems to supersede any RewriteRules I put in the same file, regardless of whether I place them before the Redirect.
Is there any way I can somehow ensure the RewriteRule is handled before the Redirect?
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