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.htaccess for moved forum and seo url

I’ve a problem with my .htaccess file.
I recently moved the forum (IPB) that was in the root path in a subdirectory, so I wrote this .htaccess file

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^view/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?view=$1 [NC,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forum/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /forum/$1

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ forum/index.php

And this worked very well.
Basically, I wanted that old urls that were pointing to forum, were redirected to forum subdir.

But here’s the problem.
In the root path now, there is a index.php that will be the new website, I want SEO friendly urls, so I wrote this line 

RewriteRule ^view/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?view=$1 [NC,L]

But this rule doesn’t work.
Every request like

www.domain.com/view/welcome/

redirect to a 404 page of the IPB forum.

I tried also to put some RewriteCond but the result is the same,
every url involving the new index.php in the root path turns in a 404 Page.

EDIT:
In /forum/
There is this .htaccess

ErrorDocument 401 /401.shtml
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forum

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .*.(jpeg|jpg|gif|png)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . /public/404.php [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L,QSA]

</IfModule>
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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    I found the problem! I was using this:

    /* Configuration: Path to IP.Board */
define( 'IPB_LOC', 'forum/' );
define( 'IPS_ENFORCE_ACCESS', TRUE );//DAMN COSTANT

/* Load IP.Board files */
require_once( IPB_LOC . 'conf_global.php' );
require_once( IPB_LOC . 'initdata.php' );
require_once( IPB_LOC . CP_DIRECTORY. '/sources/base/ipsRegistry.php' );

/* Init Registry */
ipsRegistry::init();

/* Fetch Member */
$member = ipsRegistry::member()->fetchMemberData(); 
$loggedIn = (bool) $member['member_id'];

    To check if the user was logged in the forum, but I haven't wrote this line

    define( 'IPS_ENFORCE_ACCESS', TRUE );//DAMN COSTANT

    That tells to IPB to NOT handle by itself the url that you are going to map (I think that this allow an external access)

    So I ended up with the .htaccess from @splash58 (thank you!)


  2. 0

    In the Rule below you match only digits after view but want welcome 

    RewriteRule ^view/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?view=$1 [NC,L]

    change to 

    RewriteRule ^view/(.+)/?$ index.php?view=$1 [NC,L]

    and add some lines to void unnecessary redirects

    RewriteRule ^view/(.+)/?$ index.php?view=$1 [NC,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forum/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /forum/$1

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ forum/index.php
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