I have tried to make sure that you can install nForum into an
existing site - In essence nesting the forum deep into the node
level of a website. Personally I wouldn't next it too deep,
or you'll end up with REALLY long urls for some pages in the
forum. I'd only let the forum go one level under the home
page, but it will work however you do it.
So if you do need to nest nForum there are a few things you need
to change to make sure everything works, for this post we'll make
the assumption you are just installing it under your home page of
an existing site so have a structure like so
- Content
- Home
- About Us
- Contact
- Forum
1) The main category level, on the forum node there is a setting
which needs to be changed to tell the forums at what level in the
site the main category forums are - On a fresh install they are
level 2, if you nest the forum under your current home page then
the level would be 3. I cover this briefly in the overview
screencast which will be on the site later today.
2) The next thing you need to do is open up the Master Template
(ForumMaster.master) and change the hyperlink to the login and
register pages
<a href="/forum/login.aspx">Login</a> / <a href="/forum/register.aspx">Register</a>
3) And last one in the ForumMaster.master is update where he
search form posts to
<form action="/forum/search.aspx" method="get">
4) Lastly we need to update the logged in admin menu, to change
the location of Active Topic and Topics you participated in, so
open up the usercontrol found at
(\usercontrols\nForum\membership\UserAdmin.ascx) and change the
hyperlinks to reflect the new level.
<li><a href="/forum/activetopics.aspx">Active topics</a></li>
<li><a href="/forum/yourtopics.aspx">Topics you participated in</a></li>
<li><a href="/forum/editprofile.aspx">Edit profile</a></li>
These pages above use alternative templates, so I 'think' you
might not have to change URL's and they should still work.