Moving the forums to another directory + redirecting in index.php ??

[stark427]

Hello all.
I'm planning to install VBHome lite but prior to this I have some simple (I hope) questions on 2 things.

I now have my forums at the root directory of my domain name.

so it is:

www.mydomain.gr

I want to move the forum to :

www.mydomain.gr/forum

I've been told that the only thing I have to so is to create the FORUM directory and move all the files and dirs into this...

Then just update the forum URL at the admin panel.
is that right?

Something else.
That will leave me with a blank root page.
So, before I install VBHome lite, I want to make an index.php page (to put it at the root) that will be redirecting to the /forum/index.php .

How can I do this?
I mean, Can I do this just by opening Notepad, creating a simple page - putting a javascript redirect script at the HEAD and saving it as index.php ???

Is this all I have to do?

thanx in advance.