URL on my site

cheena

Hi I want to use flarum on my new website, my developer is saying that if i do the URL will show that the forum as such forum.mysite.com. If i don't use flarum and he builds me a forum it will say mysite.com/dashboard/forum.
He also says that if i use flarum then when people on my site talk in the forum then they will be leaving my site to do so. Can you please confirm if this is all correct please as i would really like to be using flarum.

webeindustry

cheena

You can have flarum installed as a subdomain or subfolder of your domain. When you say "leaving your site" are you referring to integrating flarum with your site for a single login?

cheena

cheena Yes my members will login and then have forum access. My site is a membership site and the forum will play a very large part of the site. Is there some way we can make this work?

cheena

Yes my members will login and then have forum access. My site is a membership site and the forum will play a very large part of the site.

webeindustry

cheena

I think an experienced developer could make an extension for this, but that's only the most direct approach that I can think of. You may be able to hack at this by making Flarum only accessible from a particular link/redirect, and only make access to this section of the website for members.

This is something to go over with your developer.

I think this may be pulled off by limiting access of the subdomain to an internal IP, and then making a proxy map to that IP.

cheena

So today my developer is saying that the only way i can have the forum on my site is with API. Is this correct?
2. Does he have to code it all himself and this is a major job?
3. Using the API it doesn't have the same features as when set up as a subdomain?

Marianox

cheena First of all, It'll be always much cheaper and easier to run an already developed platform (as Flarum) than building one from scratch, as the developer said it would do.

If he wants to integrate the site, yes, he should use the API, using the API doesn't change in any way the functionality of the forum, it just lets something communicate with Flarum.

Installing Flarum, you can have either forum.mysite.com as mysite.com/dashboard/forum