301 redirect of the entire directory?

Question

htaccess

Hello! Can you please tell me how to make a request?
The site had a directory "/forum", there were a large number of pages. We decided to abandon it, but we don’t need 404 pages at all.
Required: for all forum pages (including /forum) to redirect to the main page. on the "/". For example /forum/post.1 redirects to /. Etc.

Answer 1

RewriteRule ^forum($|/) /? [R=301,L]