[dartho]

OK, I googled - you shold be able to do this simpler. Assuming you don;t have an index.html in your forum root, simply add the following line to your htaccess

RewriteRule ^(index\.html)?$ view.php?pg=xxxxx[QSA,L]

Then when someone visits http://mysite.com your webserver will try and load up index.html which will be rewritten to view.php?pg=xxxxx (you swap xxxxx for the web template page identifier) and load up http://mysite.com/view.php?pg=xxxxx someone requesting http://mysite.com/index.php will still get that...