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mmbianco
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15 years ago

Hello and thanks in advance for any assistance.

I have successfully installed 1.9.3 and integrated with an existing site using my own Custom Membership Provider, but using Yaf's Role and Profile providers.

I went through the new install, creating a database from scratch.

Everything seems to be working great except:

I cannot see any forums or topics listed. I cannot see a "new topic" or "new post" button anywhere. I am only able to see the top level category list. If I click on the category, it navigates there, but again not displaying any of the forums. If I click "+" next to the category, it seems to "expand" and changes to a "-", but no forums listed.

In the admin I have gone through and created multiple categories, and multiple forums. I have attempted to flag these forums in various ways (i.e. moderated, locked, test, etc) just for debugging purposes, but nothing I do seems to make them display. I have verified their existance in the DB.

Please any help is appreciated, I feel so close to getting the install working but I have no idea what may be causing this problem, and haven't seen any similar posts on here.

Thanks,
Marco

P.S. Notice a lot of views on this topic.. anyone else experiencing the same issue?

Edited by user 15 years ago | Reason: Not specified

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Jaben
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YAF Developer

15 years ago

This is a unique problem... Question: Are you using a custom membership provider or YAF's?

What roles are avaliable and linked in YAF admin? You cannot see topics logged in as admin?

mmbianco
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15 years ago

Jaben wrote:
This is a unique problem... Question: Are you using a custom membership provider or YAF's?

What roles are avaliable and linked in YAF admin? You cannot see topics logged in as admin?

Yes, I am using a custom membership provider, and I have not implemented every single method stub in the process. However, I have implemented the major methods, such as ValidateUser, and GetUser.

I cannot see the topics if I am an Administrator or just a Registered member. I am not getting any error, etc, just not able to see any forums or topics etc.

Again only able to see the top-level categories.

If it may make a difference, I've integrated YAF using the source, adding as a sub directory to my application, and making the appropriate web.config changes, and other config file additions.

As I mentioned all works great. My membership provider is being called, and Yaf roles are working correctly as far as I can tell (Admins see the admin link, registered members do not).

I am still clueless as to why this is happening, however. I cannot see topics, posts, etc, regardless of what I do.

Any advice?

Jaben
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YAF Developer

15 years ago

Unfortunately, YAF Roles and YAF profile MUST be used with YAF Membership. They are quite dependent on YAF membership.

You need to use a different Role provider -- I suggest just the standard ASP.NET role provider if you are not making your own custom version.

mmbianco
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15 years ago

Hi Jaben,

Thanks for the response. So just to clarify, do I need to inherit from YAF Membership in my own provider if I want to continue to use YAF Roles and YAF Profile?

You suggest using the standard role provider, so does this mean I would use my custom membership provider, the standard .NET role provider, and the YAF profile provider?

Also what affects does this have in terms of single-sign-on?

Thanks agin,
Marco

Jaben
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YAF Developer

15 years ago

It's not so much about YAF membership inheritance... it's that YAF roles depends on the Database Structure of YAF Memembership -- basically, it links to a Membership user.

You cannot use YAF Profile Provider without using YAF membership. So you'd use .NET role provider and .NET profile provider.

mmbianco
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YAF Forumling Topic Starter

15 years ago

Hi Jaben,

Appreciating your help, but still having a very difficult time with this.

http://wiki.yetanotherforum.net/1.9.3%20Integration%20with%20existing%20site.ashx

That I need to inherit from YafProfileProvider, but you say I cannot use that profile provider without using membership.

Basically I have two seperate databases, yaf and my main db (with my membership, roles, etc).

As I said I have a custom membership provider, and now I have created a custom role provider inheriting from System.Web.Security.RoleProvider.

I have attemtped to use the YafProfile provider, obviously that's not working. I have then attempted to use the standard profileprovider, and in doing so I'm getting the following error:


Line 126:
Line 127:			// render the forum
Line 128:			base.Render( writer );
Line 129:
Line 130:			writer.WriteLine( "</div></div>" );
 

Source File: c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\GV\App_Code\YAF\Forum.cs    Line: 128 

Stack Trace: 


[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
   YAF.Classes.Data.DB.user_guest(Object boardID) +116

I have also attempted to create a custom profile provider, applying the inheritance in the web.config provider tag, as I cannot inherit direction in the code, I get a scoping error.

Using this custom profile provider, I get the same error as above.

Is there something I need to do to "link" my roles with YAFs? Anything else I'm doing wrong?

Thanks again, trying hard...

-Marco

Boskone
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YAF MVP

15 years ago

Perhaps this will help.
DNN uses the standard aspnet membership provider only.
What I have done was to use the same membership provider, the standard aspnet role provider and the YAF profile provider.
Here is the web.config entries.

<membership defaultProvider="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="15">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="SiteSqlServer" enablePasswordRetrieval="true" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" minRequiredPasswordLength="7" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" requiresUniqueEmail="false" passwordFormat="Encrypted" applicationName="DotNetNuke" description="Stores and retrieves membership data from the local Microsoft SQL Server database" />
      </providers>
    </membership>
    <!-- YAF Support -->
    <roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="AspNetSqlRoleProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add connectionStringName="SiteSqlServer" applicationName="DotNetNuke"
            name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
      </providers>
    </roleManager>
    <profile enabled="true" defaultProvider="YafProfileProvider" inherits="YAF.Classes.Utils.YafUserProfile">
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add connectionStringName="SiteSqlServer" applicationName="DotNetNuke" name="YafProfileProvider" type="YAF.Providers.Profile.YafProfileProvider"/>
      </providers>
    </profile>
    <!-- END -->

So I would think you can use your membership provider, the standard role provider and the YAF profile provider.

Boskone - A DotNetNuke user.
RDSCC

mmbianco
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15 years ago

Thanks for the reply.

I believe my trouble is happening because of my custom providers, however.

Completley boggled...

Jaben
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YAF Developer

15 years ago

#10

You do not inherit from "YAFProfileProvider".

But it's required that no matter which profile provider you use you inherit the YAF profile class which is unrelated to the provider.

inherits="YAF.Classes.Utils.YafUserProfile"

mmbianco
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YAF Forumling Topic Starter

15 years ago

#11

Jaben,

Thanks. Yes I misspoke, but this is how I am inheriting.

Currently these are my provider declarations:


<membership defaultProvider="GMembershipProvider"  userIsOnlineTimeWindow="30">
      <providers>
      <add name="GMembershipProvider"
         type="GMembershipProvider"
         applicationName="GV"
         requiresUniqueEmail="true"
         passwordFormat="SHA1"
         description="Stores and retrieves membership data from SQL Server"
         decryptionKey="<removed>"
         validationKey="<removed>"
        />
      </providers>
    </membership>

    <roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="AspNetSqlRoleProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add connectionStringName="GVConnectionString" applicationName="GV"
          name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider" />
      </providers>
    </roleManager>
 
    <profile defaultProvider="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" enabled="true" inherits="YAF.Classes.Utils.YafUserProfile">
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider"
             connectionStringName="GVConnectionString"
             applicationName="GV"
             type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider" />
      </providers>
      <properties>
        <add name="Theme" allowAnonymous="false" defaultValue="ASPNETBlue"/>
      </properties>
    </profile>

Any idea at all why I'm getting the error described in my previous post?

Is there a way I can force yaf to try to do a reinstall of the DB, certain table to be droped, etc?

Thank you,
Marco

mmbianco
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15 years ago

#12

Jaben,

I have reinstalled the database using the install tool, and I have gotten it working.

Thanks for all your help.

-Marco

mmbianco
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YAF Forumling Topic Starter

15 years ago

#13

Jaben,

I may have spoken too soon.

While I am able to logon, I am experiencing the issues with the roles not synching.

I have seen some other posts on this matter,
http://forum.yetanotherforum.net/yaf_postst6304_YAF-and-existing-role-provider-not-friends.aspx
http://forum.yetanotherforum.net/yaf_postst6248_Problem-with-newbie-role.aspx

Again I'm currently using my own custom membership provider, aspnet role provider, and aspnet provile provider, inheriting from YAF.Classes.Utils.YafUserProfile, as you can in my web.config above.

If a user is part of the "Registered" role, in my aspnet role provider, then how can I make them be recognized as "Registered" in YAF? The roles are in the Roles admin section, and I see them showing up as Linked. Right now I can navigate to a user in yaf admin, and select Registered, and it works, but obviously I cannot do this for every new user.

How can a user that's registered on my site, logon, go to YAF and have Member permissions by default?

http://forum.yetanotherforum.net/yaf_postsm26395_Role-synchronization-bug.aspx#post26395

Edited by user 15 years ago | Reason: Not specified

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