Problems Pointing the root domain name to the correct folder automatically

I installed the website domain http://www.collisionindustryfoundation.org in my godaddy account under /CIF/CIFWeb. I have godaddy configured with collisionindustryfoundation.org/CIFWeb. I want it to automatically go to the site when users type http://www.collisionindustryfoundation.org. If they do it shows Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I have tried to add
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?collisionindustryfoundation.org$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ CIFWeb [L]

to the top of the .htaccess file under /CIF/CIFWeb. This is not helping. What am I doing wrong?

I previously had it set up on godaddy to point the directory to /CIF/CIFWeb and had it under the wordpress install as the root domain. The front page showed but all links were broken.