How do I make forum page the page that my domain goes to when i type in the url?

[DanTHEGREAT]

Title says all.

[HMBeaty]

What directory do you have it installed in? The root or in a /forum/ directory?

[DanTHEGREAT]

well my forum path is

public_html > forums

[HMBeaty]

Well, then you would use an htaccess file to redirect your url to your forums directory

See here: http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml

[DanTHEGREAT]

what? I'm confused? What do I have to do?

[HMBeaty]

Create an .htaccess file to redirect your url from www.yoursite.com to www.yoursite.com/forums/ and place the .htaccess file in your root directory.

[DanTHEGREAT]

how do i make an htaccess? Can you just tell me instead of giving links to tutorials about dreamweaver o.o

[HMBeaty]

Create an .htaccess file and add this to it...
Redirect 301 / http://www.yoursite.com/forums

[DanTHEGREAT]

No but i mean how to create the base file? from what program?

[HMBeaty]

Notepad, wordpad, whatever you want to use

[DanTHEGREAT]

But when i press save as and type redirect.htaccess it just saves it as that name under Rich Text Format.

[HMBeaty]

Ok.... 1.) open notepad or wordpad, or whatever

2.) File > Save As > .htaccess > Save

3.) Add this line in that file: Redirect 301 / http://www.yoursite.com/forums

4.) File > Save

5) Upload to your root directory

[DanTHEGREAT]

When i do step 2, there is no option for htaccess so if i type it in, it just changes to a txt or rtf...

[HMBeaty]

When i do step 2, there is no option for htaccess so if i type it in, it just changes to a txt or rtf...

Ok, unzip and edit the htaccess file attached and upload to your root

[DanTHEGREAT]

wow no none of my site works...

[HMBeaty]

Ok, not sure why, but you can try this as well, using an index.html in your root to redirect...

Just unzip, edit and upload

[DanTHEGREAT]

Alright, that worked, THANKS!