I downloaded version 34_03 and looked at the README.html. It says that if I need to have more than one forums than I should change the table prefix from FORUM_ to something else. Does this mean that I need to have many version of config.asp for each forum in the DB? I gues this is necessery because strTablePrefix can have only one value.
Can someone provide a longer description of how to host more than one forum in the same Database.
Basically the only thing you need to host several forums in a SQL Server DB is to have a different copy of the code in a separate folder for each forum. Of course, you need to change config.asp for each forum, so that the table prefixes are different. After changing config.asp just run setup.asp to create the forum and you're done.
Thanks for the advice. I think that if the schema is altered it could support many forums whithout the table prefix stuff. Having many copies of the same files it doesn't look like a good idea. I hope the developers will concider this.
In our site there are 12 databases for each forum we had. I wrote a SQL script to concat all the databases in one. However I don't want the user to visit the "All Forums" link.
The fast solution is to disable the "All Forums" link and this is what I did.
Since the configuration data is stored in Application variables, you need each forum folder to be it's own web application or else the configuration settings will apply to all forums.
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Posted - 16 September 2002 : 07:28:36
