how to route all links to a different directory htaccess?

[optikalefx]

so i had a site that had a forum that was installed in /vbulletin.  So all the links around the internet point there.

 

Is there a way in only .htaccess that i can route request for /vbulletin/(.+) to /$1 ?

Basically the new forum is installed on the root, not a directory. Since the vbulletin suite is really an entire cms + blog + website a separate directory wasn't needed.

 

Right now i have

RewriteRule ^vbulletin/$ forum.php

RewriteRule vbulletin/(.+) vbulletin/index.php

 

and then i have a php file substring the URL and strip out the /vbulletin and redirect the user... yea.

[AbraCadaver]

Maybe:

 

RewriteRule ^vbulletin/(.+)$ $1