A Fishy htaccess change causes banner to go?

[OS,]

Hi there guys,

I am wanting my parked domain to redirect users to my real domain, so this is the change i had made within my root:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.realdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

I then made this change within my /forum/ directoy..

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.realdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.realdomain.com/forum/$1 [L,R=301]


When i visit the forum everything is in place but the banner image is missing and it does not show. The banner image displays an "x" as in a no image sign. I then removed the htaccess settings from /forum/ root and the banner still did not show. I then removed the htaccess settings from the root of public_html and the banner showed up.

I dont know why this happens... however the banner is situated outside the forum directory folder, could that be a reason as to why it dosent show?

Cheers

[briansol]

did you include
RewriteEngine On at the top?

[OS,]

did you include
RewriteEngine On at the top?

Yes