Seperating and Creating New Forums???
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Topic: Seperating and Creating New Forums???
Posted By: jlewchuk
Subject: Seperating and Creating New Forums???
Date Posted: 30 December 2003 at 1:10pm
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All, Hopefully, you can assist. I have the forum running nicely, and wanted to create a second one, with a diff subject, on my host. The current forum allows for multiple forums, but the forum header graphic is geographic specific and not applicable to the new one I'm creating. So I was going to replicate the forum in a new folder and tweak it accordingly, thereby seperating them both. (e.g. the old one is NY based, the new one is FL based) I copied the files and palced them in a new folder, but after making changes, both NY and FL boards are impacted, not just the FL. What changes do I need to make to truly keep these boards seperate? Thanks, Jim |
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Posted By: jlewchuk
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 10:50am
Well, no response yet. 
How about this: is there anyway to have different title graphics up top for different forums on the same server? Jim |
Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 11:57am
| if you are using different files, but the same database just edit line 282 in common.asp |
Posted By: jlewchuk
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 12:09pm
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Thanks for the quick reply; ideally, I;d like to have a seperate DB, seperate everything. I've tried, but it keeps all tyoing into one, so if I chnage one forum, it changes the other. Any suggestions? Thanks for your patience...I'm a newbie, as you may be able to tell.
Jim |
Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 12:16pm
| are you using ms access or ms sql? |
Posted By: jlewchuk
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 12:19pm
| Access, which I know precious little about. |
Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 12:26pm
| then this shouldnt be any problem at all.. just upload the forum to two different folders and its done |
Posted By: jlewchuk
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 12:34pm
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Hey there,
Tried it; still, when one is worked on, the other one changes too. 
Jim |
Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 12:36pm
| then you are doing something wrong.. try uploading clean copys of wwf to two different folders.. forum1 and forum2 or whateva |
Posted By: Magic
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 3:31pm
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Okay lay it out for us. URl ? Are you doing this in Virtual Directories; ie: http://www.mysite.com/forum1 - http://www.mysite.com/forum1 & http://www.mysite.com/forum2 - http://www.mysite.com/forum2 or seperate sites; ie: http://forum1.mysite.com - http://forum1.mysite.com & http://forum2.mysite.com - http://forum2.mysite.com
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Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 3:37pm
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huh? i dont really see the point in this.. this is as simple as windows explorer! Just create one folder in your root directory for each forum and copy the forum into each folder!! was that hard to understand? then the url will be yoursite/forum1,2,3,4,5 etc
btw, are you the same magic as the magic @ invisionportal? have you found a solution to your color problem? |
Posted By: Oem^
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 5:04pm
| could it be you second database has the same name as the first one? thereby leaving iis to write to both? |
Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 5:17pm
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if the databases are in two different folders IIS wont write to bot of them |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 31 December 2003 at 5:34pm
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but if he has the database in a private folder below the root and did not change both common.asp files it will affect the other. Make sure that the one in the admin folder is changed also. if the database is in it's respective folder for the forum one change will not affect the other. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: jlewchuk
Date Posted: 01 January 2004 at 1:39pm
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Hey all,
First and foremost, I am extremely appreciative of your help. I'm the kinda guys that likes to say thanks alot, when people go above and beyond. Problem solved. I simply uploaded a fresh copy of the forum as opposed to simply copying the old one to the directory. Had to call my ISP to set permissions to the folder as Cute FTP wouldn't do it. Many thanks again...! Hope this thread helps others in the future. Jim |