Redirect homepage to latest post

Go to Settings -> Reading and chose “recent posts” as your front page.

I have that and it shows a list of the latest posts (excerpts), however i’d like it to redirect to the latest post page actual URL

Any idea how?

Try this in your own custom page template

<?php
 $postslist = get_posts('numberposts=1');
 foreach ($postslist as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
        <div class="post"><h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php the_content() ?>
</div>
<?php endforeach ?>

So would i save this as index.php and replace the main WordPress index file? Or is it in the templates folder somewhere?

Follow the link I posted

I have, sorry, a little confused!

So if i save this file as page.php (or something), then what?

See https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates