[SOLVED] htaccess issue

[tecinese]

Your Portal Version: 1.0.4
Your phpBB Type: Standard phpBB3
MODs installed: No
Your knowledge: Beginner
Boardlink: http://www.forumcittanuova.it/

What have you done before the problem was there?
installed phpBB 3.0.6.
installed Board3portal 1.0.4.

What have you already tryed to solve the problem?
tryed to write alternative code for .htaccess

Description and Message
Hi, I'm an italian beginner user of phpBB (sorry for my poor english )

I've installed phpBB board 3.0.6. and Board3portal 1.0.4.
It seems work well but.....

.htaccess file edit is an issue, because causes an "Internal Server Error".
Currently I've just renamed the .htaccess to disable it.
Unfortunately it's not so easy to comunicate with my hoster, so I'm trying to find an alternative way to redirect to "Portal" as main page of my website.
Can anybody help me?

[Marc]

I think you should just contact your hoster. They should know why a change in the .htaccess file causes an error. I hope you edited the .htaccess file correctly with a normal Editor like Notepad++.

[tecinese]

thank you!
I use Notpad++; also I have a backup copy of the original .htaccess.

Now I'm going for another way. I want to reinstall my phpbb with his portal in a dedicated folder (something like "forum"). Then I'd like to redirect, from the index in the root of my site , to forum/portal.php.

Do you think it makes sense?

[Marc]

If it works that way I don't see a reason why it shouldn't make any sense.

[tecinese]

It works.

Now my forum with his beautiful portal is nested in a folder.
Thanks to this simple metatag html, I can redirect from the root of my website:

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<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.domain-I-want-to-redirect.it/forum/portal.php">