I moved my forum to load as the home page on both my sites (listed below). Simply moving the .htaccess file created a 500 error on my home page. The host said I should try to place a # in front of some lines, which I did, which didin't fix anything. I ended up placing it on the last line of my code, and the forum loaded. The problem is, I'm getting errors now, and I'm pretty sure the last line is necessary. I don't want my SERPS to be negatively affected by my changed. Any thoughts?
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^\.htaccess$ - [F] RewriteRule .*P([0-9]+)/?$ /cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=$1&t=search_engine [L,PT]
RewriteRule .*P([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/?$ /cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=$1&page=$2&t=search_engine [L,PT]
RewriteRule .*F([0-9]+)/?$ /cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?forum=$1&t=search_engine [L,PT]
RewriteRule .*F([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/?$ /cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?forum=$1&page=$2&t=search_engine [L,PT]
RewriteRule .*C([0-9]+)/?$ /cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?category=$1&t=search_engine [L,PT]
RewriteRule ^/?$ /cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?t=search_engine [L,PT]
RewriteRule (.*)gforum.cgi /cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?%{QUERY_STRING} [NS,L]

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