The main reason is that I would need to manage another server. I would need a Unix box with Apache, PHP and MySQL on it.
I guess I could put PHP and MySQL on windows but I have never done that before. I wasn’t sure if that was really a good idea. I thought there may be a lot of configuration and workarounds I would need to do. We also currently have website in ASP http://www.mysite.com.au and I just wanted to add forum to the url http://www.mysite.com.au/forum If I have my website and forum running under two different types of web servers how can I use the same domain on both web servers? Regards Adrian Halid From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Thursday, 4 March 2010 11:24 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Free Forum Software and Mailing list software. On 4 March 2010 14:00, Adrian Halid <adrian.ha...@itvision.com.au<mailto:adrian.ha...@itvision.com.au>> wrote: Hi All, I am looking for some free forum software. I have used PHPBB before and found it easy to setup and great for plugins or modifications. But I need to find some software to host on Windows IIS with a MS SQL backend. I'm going to ask why? If PHPBB demonstrably does what you want, why care about the backend? I have setup YAF.NET<http://YAF.NET> (Yet Another Forum) as that seems the most popular on search results but have not found it as complete or crisp as PHPBB. There seems to be a lot more configuration options for PHPBB and feels more natural to use and what I am used to. Does anybody have any recommendations for free .net Forum software that is also easy to modify and create plugins? I am also looking at mailing list software. The obvious choice is Mailman but once again I am looking for something to be hosted on Windows Server. It would be nice if I could find some software that did both mailing list and forum and were integrated but from reading previous posts I don’t think the people at ozdotnet could find any. Thanks Regards Adrian Halid -- Meski "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
