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Unread 16 Oct 2003, 21:31   #1
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Sooo, free forum software...

Anyone know any decent stuff?
I can't seem to remember any of them...
Oh yes, and it needs to run on Microsoft IIS based hosting.

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Re: Sooo, free forum software...

asp forums. ive seen some somewhere. google for them.
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Re: Sooo, free forum software...

If they're got php installed, phpBB is the best open-source forum I've used.
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Unread 16 Oct 2003, 22:41   #4
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Re: Sooo, free forum software...

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Anyone know any decent stuff?
I can't seem to remember any of them...
Oh yes, and it needs to run on Microsoft IIS based hosting.

if you have PHP / mySQL - which is very possible on Windows IIS (I used to have that setup for Dev and old toolkit host)

phpBB (www.phpbb.com) is probably the best.
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Re: Sooo, free forum software...

Not a forum per se but actually a fully fledged portal, with forum and news panes, polls etc..

www.maxwebportal.com

Also its ASP so fitting for IIS.
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Re: Sooo, free forum software...

Have a look at this one: http://www.webwizguide.info/forum/default.asp

Download links on the left, uses ASP on IIS with either Access 2000 db, or SQL server 2000.

Great support, migration is easy, had no probs running mine for last few months.

And its free.
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Re: Sooo, free forum software...

You simply can not beat vBulletin. With that said, it isn't free, so not always an option.

Of the free forum suites out there, my favorite is (IPB) Invisionboards. It has the most (and most needed) functionality out of the big names most people will probably suggest. The closest runner up currently (imo), and also just as popular, is phpBB (already mentioned). Until phpBB releases phpBB 2.2 though, it will lack many popular features found in other forum suites.

Both of the above use PHP and MySQL (possibly other DB's available), but assuming those are both free and run on windows, I would assume they will work for your windows hosting. If not, you will need to go with an ASP solutions most likely, which I have never really dealt with. I have seen many of them though and they don't seem to be quite as modern and feature rich as the PHP/MySQL brand, likely because of the community backing one obviously has over the other

For a pretty recent and decent article on this topic check this out. It's a forum software review on sitepoint.com. Even if it is a little overly opinionated, you still get a look at most of the features It includes PHP, ASP and CGI (in this case perl) solutions.
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