[kevcj]

turn the forum on, and upload an index.html file to the www root. If you type in the domain name the person will see what you put in the html file.

To access the forum, just type in index.php

forumname.com - they will see the index.html file
forumname.com/index.php - they will see the actual forum

you can also change the name of the index.php file. You could to that to hide it from people.

When your ready to open the forum, delete the index.html file and rename the index.php back to index.php