We have set up the YAF forum and it is working fine, we have this on a subdomain.

forum.oursite.com

We also have a custom made site we've have built using MVC 4.

www.oursite,com

We've added a Content table to the YAF database, our main site is pulling content from this database.

We need to now, secure the content on our main MVC site, users must login to view it.

We want to put a login on our MVC site in order to authenticate the users, once authenticated they will then be able to view our content. We want them to use the YAF_User table.

Is there a tutorial or a sample project I can download to help me out?

Has anyone any ideas?

<authentication mode="Forms">
      <forms name=".mysite" protection="All" timeout="43200" slidingExpiration="true" cookieless="UseCookies" domain=".yetanotherforum.net" />
    </authentication>

That's the single most important trick to doing single sign on authentication for a whole site. Good luck.

<authentication mode="Forms">
      <forms name=".mysite" protection="All" timeout="43200" slidingExpiration="true" cookieless="UseCookies" domain=".yetanotherforum.net" />
    </authentication>

Thanks for this, but we're still very stuck.

Does anybody have an example of their account controller for an MVC 4 project were they have managed to authenticate a user from the YAF database?

Seems your stuck on the abstraction... which seems to be a big problem with understanding Forms Authentication. YAF.NET does not provide the authentication -- ASP.NET does. When you start to think in terms that concept -- it should be easier to understand. The only thing required is that the settings are all the same.

Jaben,

Thanks for your help with this.

I've created an ASP.Net web application, updated the web.config to point to the YAF database, ive added references to the YAF dlls, the project loads and I can login...happy days.

I've then created a simple MVC 3 project updated the webConfig etc...ran the project.....and I can login again...happy days.

Now...

I am trying to create an MVC 4 project, and it wont run as MVC 4 does not use the same provider, rafter a bit of googling Ive realised that MVC 4 is using SimpleMemberShipProvider, im not sure if there is a way round this?

What would be great is a sample MVC 4 project that works with the YAF database....or even just the web config file and account controller!

Thanks again for your help with this, we love the forum!

... Glad you like the forum ;)

Also, FYI, you don't have to use YAF.NET providers with YAF. You can use any membership provider -- including "SimpleMembershipProvider" or any other provider.

What I have done is to use the same static machine key for both in the web.config.

All logins handled by the YAF login, not using the MVC4 AccountController at all...