I have installed a forum at http://sonatech.info/forum/ right now there is no content at http://sonatech.info/ when someone visits http://sonatech.info/ i want it to be redirected to http://sonatech.info/forum/ how can i do that?
if you have cpanel , use the redirection service. its builtin on cpanel. it will directly redirect your visitor to h*tp://sonatech.info/forum/ without opening h*tp://sonatech.info
the builtin cpanel redirection actually does the .htaccess thing. but its easier than editing the file manually.
Only if you don't know what you're doing. Editing a text file and uploading it is a hell of a lot quicker than pissing around in cpanel.