Following the instructions at:

https://github.com/YAFNET/YAFNET/wiki/YAF.NET-Integration-in-to-an-existing-ASP.NET-Application 

I think I have followed the instructions.

I believe I have put the followed where to put the various YAF components. My directory structure looks basicially like this:

MyWebsite

......\Forum

................default.aspx

................default.aspx.cs

...............\Properties

................\Styles

................\Forum

.............................\controls

.............................\editors

.............................\images

.............................\install

Does this seem correct?

I'm concerned as when I attempt to start the forum software, the install package isn't found. Here's what I start the forum with:

http://192.168.10.107/forum/default.asxp 

(The IP is the IP assigned to the parent website which is working fine)

I get:

Server Error in '/' Application.

The resource cannot be found.

Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

Requested URL: /forum/install/default.aspx

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.1025

Which leads me to believe I don't quite have the directory structure laid out correctly.

Any suggestions?

But where do the default.aspx, default.aspx.cs, site.master, site.master.cs that are in the sample webapp distribution go then? The root directory of my parent directory? I already have default.aspx for the parent website. I did have to move the site.master to the parent root directory already to get as far as I did. I'm guessing I'd just copy what is there to my parent root directory and then fix any file name collisions that would happen. I'm thinking the rest are probably okay

Site.Master would be in the root.

You are installing YAF fresh into an already built WebForm website, correct?

Now at the "Initialize Database" part of the install process and getting the following error:

FILE:

mssql/tables.sql

ERROR:

Failed to update database "D:\FTPDIRECTORY\FORUMJOINTWEBSITE\APP_DATA\DATABASE.MDF" because the database is read-only.

STATEMENT:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[yaf_drop_defaultconstraint_oncolumn](@tablename varchar(255), @columnname varchar(255)) as

BEGIN

DECLARE @DefName sysname

............

I've got Security Permissions on App_Data folder and the Database files in it set to Full Control for pretty much everyone in trying to get beyond this. Do I need to go into SQL Express Management Studio and change some permissions on the actual database?

Thanks for the help.

Now to explore.