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Suggestions For A Free/Open source Community Site For A Windows Server (PHP or .NET)
I am looking for a good looking open source/free community site that I can host on my windows server. PHP, .NET is fine. This is for a couple hundred non-tech types so easy to use and modern look is what I am after.
As far as specific features, they all do about the same thing and so I am more interested in all around ease of use and modern looks.
I am interested in what you have used as an admin or user.
As far as specific features, they all do about the same thing and so I am more interested in all around ease of use and modern looks.
I am interested in what you have used as an admin or user.
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Thanks Chinmay. I was thinking more on the line of https://www.oxwall.com/, https://www.humhub.com/en, https://vanillaforums.com/en/ etc. I know for sure the first two have to be on Apache and not IIS.
what about WordPress? Mediawiki ?
of the 3 you mentioned only humhub is 'free' and open source from a general view I can't see why it can't be adapted to use IIS ... Apache Web server runs fine on Windows Server as well.
of the 3 you mentioned only humhub is 'free' and open source from a general view I can't see why it can't be adapted to use IIS ... Apache Web server runs fine on Windows Server as well.
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Thank you David, All of those have a community edition and I have tried to make them work and no luck without going into the gory details. It is just a couple of small things that trip everything up there. I have a windows server that is on plesk and I have tried to run both in the past and one issue is you have to allocate memory to Apache and more than is what is really needed. I don't think Plesk supports Apache for Windows anymore.
I was really trying to find a ready made system to run the community and not just a CMS where I can closely manage membership and have forum as well as have options to integrate some other custom features. What seems to be promising now is OpenSocial https://www.getopensocial.com/ which has a free community version that runs alongside Drupal https://www.drupal.org/project/social. For now, my fallback is probably going to be https://laravel.io/forum found at https://github.com/laravelio
I was really trying to find a ready made system to run the community and not just a CMS where I can closely manage membership and have forum as well as have options to integrate some other custom features. What seems to be promising now is OpenSocial https://www.getopensocial.com/ which has a free community version that runs alongside Drupal https://www.drupal.org/project/social. For now, my fallback is probably going to be https://laravel.io/forum found at https://github.com/laravelio
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On .Net front, I think it will take some time before an open source solution can meet such requirements.