Urgent help needed please
 

This, to some, is a basic question.

However, I don't know what to do.

We have an issue with our custom home page at www.theproductforum.com and its currently shpwing blank, this is not an easily sorted problem so for the time being I want the forums to be the first page people see. How can I do this please?

www.theproductforum.com/forums is where the forum is located currently.

Put this in your .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.theproductforum\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://theproductforum.com/$1 [R=301,L]
RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://theproductforum.com/forums/

Should work..

Thanks for your help. This problem has been solved now.