by default the address to my forums is:
......com/forum/wwwthreads.php

I want it to be:
....com/forum/

without the wwwthread.php. how do I go about setting this up?

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

You'd need to get your provider to setup the webserver so it recognizes wwwthreads.php as a default page. This probably isn't going to happen. Most do have it setup so index.php or index.html is recognized so you could make a file called one of these that does an auto refresh to wwwthreads.php.

create a .htaccess file in the forum directory and add this

DirectoryIndex wwwthreads.php

Most host have allow override on so you can override some of the apache configurations in httpd.conf. If the above doesn't work your provider has it turned off.

thanks.
the .htaccess file worked perfectly !!