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Should I use vbulletinboard or create my own forum
I am creating my first fully functional website as my goal for 2018. The website's functionality will allow people to log in, and interact with parts of the site that I build.
For example people will be able to click that they were at a show and it will show up on their profile. They will be able to upload audio recordings.
What I'm trying to say is there is functionality that requires a username.
I want to create forums that tie into the usernames I create (I'll normalize the database and create the username).
With vbulletinboard can I alter it so that registered users that I hand code can log into the vbulletinboard code? Is this hard to do? What are the pros and cons of using vbulletinboard vs. doing it yourself?
For example people will be able to click that they were at a show and it will show up on their profile. They will be able to upload audio recordings.
What I'm trying to say is there is functionality that requires a username.
I want to create forums that tie into the usernames I create (I'll normalize the database and create the username).
With vbulletinboard can I alter it so that registered users that I hand code can log into the vbulletinboard code? Is this hard to do? What are the pros and cons of using vbulletinboard vs. doing it yourself?
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David I've got one more question. And I will close the question tomorrow when I grab coffee (my cable connection was cut yesterday).
To make the domain forums.mydomain.com - I see on Godaddy where you can create a domain like that and add a new ip address.
I'm going to do this on one server. And I know how to create virtual sites with Apache.
Do I just follow the steps to create a new virtual site and just create one for forums.mydomain.com? I'm assuming I need to generate a new SSL certificate?
To make the domain forums.mydomain.com - I see on Godaddy where you can create a domain like that and add a new ip address.
I'm going to do this on one server. And I know how to create virtual sites with Apache.
Do I just follow the steps to create a new virtual site and just create one for forums.mydomain.com? I'm assuming I need to generate a new SSL certificate?
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Thank you David. This is why I pay for this site.
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I've never worked with Wordpress before, can I build my site from scratch and only use Wordpress for the forums and tie the two together?