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I was wonder if i could change the homepage like instead of it going to the forums when you go on the site i wanted it to go to the Portal where it has all of the stats and stuff

where would i find index.php

and portal.php

at your root server.
Usually, /public_html/ or your /public_html/forum.com/

ok thanks that part is done. now where do i go to open my index.php file

You open it with a text editor such as Notepad++, save it and re-upload it back.

re-upload it where

^ if the file is opened from ftp then modifying and saving the file should automatically upload it to the server.
if the ftp program doesn't upload then the modified file has to be re-uploaded to its location on server ..

If your forum is on the root folder, you can use .htaccess.

Add this there:

DirectoryIndex portal.php index.php index.htm index.html