MVCForum is a fully featured and themeable enterprise level ASP.NET MVC discussion board/forum. The software has features similar to that seen on StackOverFlow plus LOTS more (See list below). Along with MVC it’s built using Unity & Entity Framework 6 code first and is super easy to extend and add your own features.
MVC Forum is a simple, easy to use, bulletin board system / forum. It’s built using a provider model, so any parts that doesn’t work like you want them to, can be exchanged easily. MVC Forum works with themes, if you don’t like the phpBB styled theme included in the project, it’s simple to create another look and feel.
The application is based on ASP.NET MVC 3, Ninject 3 and Entity Framework 5, and can easily be deployed to Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud. Of course MVC Forum can take advantage of the cloud, using blob storage and a SQL Azure database.
Installing
MvcForum is build on ASP.NET v4.7.1 using MVC 5 and also uses C# 7 features. Because of this it is advised to use Visual Studio 2017 to make changes / extend the source.
Just create a blank MS SQL database and update the connection string in the web.config to point to the database with the correct credentials. Example below
The goal of MVC Forum was to make the best ASP.NET MVC forum software, something that is easily customisable, scalable and a breeze for developers to get up and running.
This is a new open source project and still fairly in it’s infancy, but we hope to keep adding and improving it over the coming months. We also love to hear feedback, good and bad so please let us know what you think and how we can improve anything.
MVC Forum is developed using MVC 5, Entity Framework and Unity. It has a ton of features and we urge you to give it a spin and let us know what you think.
Cognosys provides hardened and ready to run images of MVC Forum on all public cloud ( AWS marketplace and Azure).
Deploy your MVC Forum securely on cloud i.e. AWS marketplace and Azure with Reliable Services offered by Cognosys at one-click with easy written and video tutorials.
Secured MVC Forum on Windows 2012 R2
MVC Forum on Cloud for AWS-Windows
MVC Forum on Cloud for Azure-Windows
Features
Features :
Multi-Lingual / Localisation
Points System
Moderate Topics & Posts
Badge System (Like StackOverflow)
Permission System (Category based and global)
Roles
Tags
RSS Feeds
Emoticons
File Attachments
Post Moderation (Optional)
Mark Posts As Solution
Vote Up / Down Posts (View who voted up your posts)
Connect to virtual machine using following RDP credentials:
Hostname: PublicDNS / IP of machine
Port : 3389
Username: Your chosen username when you created the machine ( For example: Azureuser) Password : Your Chosen Password when you created the machine ( How to reset the password if you do not remember)
Step 2) Database Login Details:
Username : sa || Password : Passw@rd123
Note: Please change the password immediately after the first login.
Step 3) Application URL: Access the application via a browser at http://PublicDNS/mvcforum
User Name: azureuser
Password: Passw@rd123
Step 4)Other Information:
1. Default installation path: will be in your web root folder “C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mvcforum”
2. Default ports:
Windows Machines: RDP Port – 3389
Http: 80
Https: 443
Sql ports: By default these are not open on Public Endpoints. Internally Sql server: 1433.
Configure custom inbound and outbound rules using this link
1.Click the Launch on Compute Engine button to choose the hardware and network settings.
2.You can see at this page, an overview of Cognosys Image as well as some estimated costs of VM.
3.In the settings page, you can choose the number of CPUs and amount of RAM, the disk size and type etc.
The below screen appears after successful deployment of the image.
i) Please connect to Remote Desktop as given in step 2
ii) You can use SQL server instance as localhost. The SQL Server instance name to be used is “localhost” Connect to SQL Management Studio with username as sa and password provided in Custom Metadata.
If you have closed the deployment page you can also get the sa password from VM Details “Custom metadata” Section.
Step 4) Application URL: Access the application via a browser at http://PublicDNS/mvcforum
Steps to access the Admin Panel:
To login to MVC Forum Administrative Panel, you need
to open your browser and navigate to http://PublicDNS//mvcforum/admin
Enter username and password in the given fields and click on the“Login”button to access the Admin Panel.
After successful login to the Admin Panel, you will get access to MVC Forum Application.
Step 5) Other Information:
1. Default installation path: will be in your web root folder “C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mvcforum”
2. Default ports:
Windows Machines: RDP Port – 3389
Http: 80
Https: 443
Sql ports: By default these are not open on Public Endpoints. Internally Sql server: 1433.
