I put it directly under //configuration but I received the following error upon loading default in the install folder:

WebDev.WebServer40.exe has stopped working

Please help.

Open up your app.config file -- that controls most of the YAF specific settings. You will want to also remove the change you made to your web.config file.

Now I receive: Server Error in '/Site' Application

The only description is: Runtime Error

What am I missing?

You will need to edit your web.config file and look for the section below:

<customErrors defaultRedirect="Error.aspx" mode="RemoteOnly"/>

change it to:

<customErrors defaultRedirect="Error.aspx" mode="Off"/>

Then you will get 'full errors' from the application -- we can go from there.

Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Unable to open configSource file 'app.config'.

Source Error:

Line 5:

Line 6:

Line 7:

Line 8:

Line 9:

Source File: C:\site\web.config Line: 7

Something in your app.config is causing an issue and ASP.NET is failing to load it. I would check it against the default one in the package and go from there.

Next up integrating into masterpage...

Once you're one getting everything setup, before you go live, you will want to go back into your web.config one last time and reset the CustomErrors tag back to "RemoteOnly" so that the system does not give out information it shouldn't be. The CustomErrors will use YAF's error page to display a friendly error to the viewers and log exceptions into your database (which you can check on using your Admin panel inside YAF).

A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client (forum$ctl02$HostSettingsTabs$View7$UserBox="

http://forum.yetanotherforum.net/yaf_postst10367_Potentially-Dangerous-Request-Form-Value.aspx