I have several, large websites, that I would like to make all the forums, website login, etc work together. My team is also working on a game, which, I'd also like to be integrated with everything else. I basically want to know if it's possible I can set up a dedicated database for just the membership related tables (ASPNET Membership provider). I want to do this because I want my account-related information stored on a dedicated database so that I can mirror that across multiple servers in the future (Don't need to ATM). I run 3 forum systems and I would like all the forums to use the database so that the account information is the same, but nothing else. I want them running on different app pools... Each forum has different settings, themes, etc, and I want them stored on the proper database. In the future, I may also have to run a dedicated account server. Right now I have two instances of SQL05 running on separate accounts. One is for website/forums and one is for customers.

Basically by doing this, it allows me to expand much easier with a lot less work. Since I have a game in the making, I want this all integrated together. I'm also hosting another project for someone else, and I want their forums/accounts integrated with my stuff.

This shouldn't be too hard, even if I had to mod it (I don't want to though) I can. Has anyone done this?

All I did is to add the connectionstring(conn1) from yaf1 to yaf2 and change in web.config for the yaf2 membership section connectionstring="conn1"...

but yaf2 still uses his own tables for users, why?

do I need to restart the web application(yaf2) so the new web.config configuration should load ?

update: I found that 1.9.1.8 (yaf1) does not implement .NET v2.0 membership & roles. v1.9.3 (yaf2) is implementing... so can I upgrade from 1.9.1.8 to 1.9.3 RC2 ?

update: tried to upgrade, but I'm geting erros:

Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument list.

offtopic: this editor does not looks ok in Chrome, I don't see icons and texteditor is very small

StatsLastPost.Text = String.Format( PageContext.Localization.GetText( "stats_lastpost" ), YafDateTime.FormatDateTimeTopic( ( DateTime ) statisticsDataRow ["LastPost"] ) );

from controls/forumstatistics.ascx.cs

I had romanian localization on my old forum, thats why this code throws error

Roles and Profiles will also work accross them all (thats the point of the provider).

A problem will probably occur if you want the same membership but different roles for each app, that will require some experimentation/tweaking if I remember correctly from my own testing.

Good luck,

Mek.

"It's a case of RTFM.. the only problem being we don't have a manual!"

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Thanks. I'll mess with it, if not I can deal with it another way.