I have been some difficulties in integrating a forum into an existing Umbraco 5 website, I am fairly new to Umbraco and would value some advice:
I need to integrate a forum so that the Umbraco 5 URL matches this: irm.sd1devserv.co.uk/forum currently I have an installation of near forums which has been installed on a subdomain at this address: forum.sd1devserv.co.uk.
It has been suggested to me that I might be able to acheive integration by using Application Request Routing rules or Routing.
Could anyone provide some guidance on how this can be done.
thanks for the reply Richard, I have looked into using v4.7 and using nForums Package, but ideally I would like a solution that I can use with Umbraco 5 it doesn't necessarily need to be with a package but I would like to provide a solution to my company which allows us to continue using v5.
probably would be useful if I posted a few more details, I currently have two MVC 3 Forum applications which I have been using upto now, one is mvcForum and the other is nearforums.
what I would like to do is to get one of these forums to integrate with Umbraco so that when user navigate to this address pattern: companyname.servername.co.uk/forum they are presented with the installed third party forum application.
At this present moment in time I do have an installation of nearforums which is found at this address: forum.sd1devserv.co.uk
Would it be better to attempt an integration with Umbraco 5, revert back to v4.7 which does have a package for forums and also can be integrated with third party applications, leave the forum on a subdomain as it currently is or wait for an appriopriate v5 forum package?
integrating a forum into Umbraco 5
I have been some difficulties in integrating a forum into an existing Umbraco 5 website, I am fairly new to Umbraco and would value some advice:
I need to integrate a forum so that the Umbraco 5 URL matches this: irm.sd1devserv.co.uk/forum currently I have an installation of near forums which has been installed on a subdomain at this address: forum.sd1devserv.co.uk.
It has been suggested to me that I might be able to acheive integration by using Application Request Routing rules or Routing.
Could anyone provide some guidance on how this can be done.
Thanks
Simon
Hi Simon,
Umbraco V5 doesn't have a forum yet. You might want to checkout Umbraco V4.7 which allows you to install the nice NForum Package.
Cheers,
Richard
thanks for the reply Richard, I have looked into using v4.7 and using nForums Package, but ideally I would like a solution that I can use with Umbraco 5 it doesn't necessarily need to be with a package but I would like to provide a solution to my company which allows us to continue using v5.
probably would be useful if I posted a few more details, I currently have two MVC 3 Forum applications which I have been using upto now, one is mvcForum and the other is nearforums.
what I would like to do is to get one of these forums to integrate with Umbraco so that when user navigate to this address pattern: companyname.servername.co.uk/forum they are presented with the installed third party forum application.
At this present moment in time I do have an installation of nearforums which is found at this address: forum.sd1devserv.co.uk
Would it be better to attempt an integration with Umbraco 5, revert back to v4.7 which does have a package for forums and also can be integrated with third party applications, leave the forum on a subdomain as it currently is or wait for an appriopriate v5 forum package?
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