I just installed YAF

and when I click login. it takes me to forums.xxxxx.com/forum/yaf_login.aspx

And says it cannot find default.aspx

I added a default page, but it still gives errors.

please advise

many thanks

Ehi

http://forum.xxxx.com/forum 

http://forums.xxxxx.com 

dont know how to correct the error, so copied the root files to the forum folder for now

thanks

you may make a new Subdomain from your domain CP - and then place yaf file there ..

I was searching for Jaben's post last night that outlines how they work and what to set. I will try to find it again this afternoon --

<add key="YAF.BaseUrlMask" value="http://forum.xxxxxx.com" />
<add key="YAF.ServerFileRoot" value="~/" />
<add key="YAF.ClientFileRoot" value="~/" />
<add key="YAF.AppRoot" value="~/" />
<add key="YAF.ForceScriptName" value="default.aspx" />

The ServerFileRoot and Client File Root are relative to the "IIS Virtual Application" root that you created when you made the /forum folder an IIS Virtual Application. This is the method where everything YAF (including the /bin folder in the distribution) runs in it's own folder completely and totally isolated from the rest of your sites. By setting the YAF.BaseUrlMask value above, you set YAF to properly set links to the subdomain name.

Backup your app.config, then find and update above values - make sure they are not commented out - then restart YAF application. (Adapted from Jaben's post about how the support forum is configured to run on subdomain - he has YAF and other apps mixed, so ServerFileRoot and ClientFileRoot have to point directly to YAF files)