I'm using iboard and have the forums set up, but the address is www.***.com/iboard. I've never set up a web page before, but how do I set up either a web page that has a link to the forums or change the setting in iboard so that when someone types in my url it automatically redirects to the forum? B/c right now when you type in the address it goes to the "parent directory" icons. Thnx again for your help.

Depending on your hosting setup, you shoudl be able to set a redirect.

You could add a .htaccess file in the base directory (perhaps public_html) to redirect to the iboard dir.

If you have cPanel you can just setup a redirect.

Example: http://www.yourdomain.com redirects to http://www.yourdomains.com/iboard

You dont have to just have cpanel to do that. All cpanel does is provide a simple interface to create the .htaccess. One line of code that's all.

i enter what he said above to rediredt it in cpanel but it seems not to work? any idea?

Login to ftp, and check any .htaccess files in public_html.

You could add a simple meta tag similar to this in the head of your index page.

<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.yoursite.com/forum>

or as was said above change your .htaccess file
Change oldURL to the path of the old URL and newURL to the path of the new url. An example of a redirection would be:

Redirect /path/to/file.html http://www.domain.com/path/to/file.html

Save your file and upload it to the server. When you try to access the now redirected URL you will automatically be sent to the new URL.