htaccess problem

Hi....

I hope this is the right place to ask.

I am trying to redirect visitors from an existing location to another using .htaccess file. I have tried everything I can think of but nothing seems to work. Can anyone help??

I want to redirect anyone trying to access my "forum" (which I'm shutting down) to an explanation page, etc in my site.

FROM: http://www.candylandcrafts.com/phpBB2/index.php

(this is the intro page of the forum......... the forum is located in the phpBB2 directory of my web site).

TO: http://www.candylandcrafts.com/forums.htm

I created an .htaccess file with notepad, then uploaded it to the root directory of the forum (here> http://www.candylandcrafts.com/phpBB2/ )

For actual content in the .htaccess file I've used (nothing else but what is typed below - I've tried all 3 lines separately):

Redirect index.php http://www.candylandcrafts.com/forums.htm

or

Redirect 301 /index.php http://www.candylandcrafts.com/forums.htm

or

Redirect 301 / http://www.candylandcrafts.com/forums.htm

Can anyone tellme what I missed? I upload it in ASCII.

Thanks!!