Website forum

[balanga]

Has anyone integrated a forum into a website?

It looks like there are two ways to do this, either install dedicated forum software such as phorum or build it into your CMS, for example Drupal.

Does anyone here run a forum?

 

[bvdw78]

I used to. My website ran TYPO3, and some forum software I don't remember exactly. I had a massive Nginx config in front of both sites that would proxy URL paths into either of the two systems, rewriting cookies and whatnot on the fly to unify the whole bunch. A trick I had previously deployed to have two Sitecore CMS websites live under the same host name. It wasn't pretty and it was brittle but it worked.

 

[cracauer@]

I used to run a forum. Don't do it, spamfighting alone is a bad chore.

I ran standalone with phpbb which was also mistake-ish.

 

[richardtoohey2]

Is it going to be an open-to-all forum? Anyone can register online and start posting?

Or more of a closed/invite-only forum?

 

[bvdw78]

The new fun these days is AI scrapers hitting your pages so hard that your forum buckles under the load.

 

[hruodr]

If it is a small forum, more or less personal, run fossil as CGI.

Fossil: How CGI Works In Fossil

Then you have also extras, like scm, wiki, etc.

I used to run a forum. Don't do it, spamfighting alone is a bad chore.

Perhaps better an nntp server that deletes the news after a while?

Perhaps with a web interface to offer as client:

Newsgrouper: Newsgrouper

 

[balanga]

Is it going to be an open-to-all forum? Anyone can register online and start posting?

Or more of a closed/invite-only forum?

I don't know yet, but only registered users would be able to post. It may be publicly viewable.

 

[Espionage724]

Has anyone integrated a forum into a website?

It looks like there are two ways to do this, either install dedicated forum software such as phorum or build it into your CMS, for example Drupal.

Does anyone here run a forum?

I was running MyBB for a bit; it was on a separate subdomain but I linked back to it from my main landing page.

I saw some Guests browsing odd pages and blocked them (afaik MyBB 1.8 didn't have a control panel way to disable those):

# Password Reset + User Profile View
 location = '/member.php' {
  deny 'all';
 }

# Calendar
 location = '/calendar.php' {
  deny 'all';
 }

MyBB is PHP + MySQL and ran easy every OS (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD 15-16; PHP 8.5-8.6; nginx)

 

[hruodr]

Has anyone integrated a forum into a website?

I run many instances of fossil with forum.

Does anyone here run a forum?

But they are for personal use, the forum is there, but not active.

As said before, you can also (mis)use the forum to make notes.