[@rachana7 Participant 3 years, 3 months ago]

You can update your .htaccess something like.
RewriteEngine On

# Redirect forum index URLs to shortcoded pages
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/forum-index$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /shortcoded-page [L,R=301]

# Exception: Exclude specific paths from redirection
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forum1$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/forum2$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [L]

With these rules, any request to /forum-index will be redirected to /shortcoded-page, except for requests to /forum1 and /forum2 which will not be redirected.