This is a free application developed by Steve Miller of New Vision Enterprise Custom Solution
and can be distributed without worry of copyright infringements

To setup the forum as currently configured on the FrmAppConfig.inc and FrmMaintConfig.inc files

1. Create a directory in the root of your website and name it Forums and copy all the 
   files from the 'Free_Forum.zip' into it excluding the 'Maintenance Files.zip' and 'Database Files.zip' 
	files.
2. Create a subdirectory in the root directory of your website and name it fmaintenance 
   and copy all the files from the 'Maintenance Files.zip' into it.
3. Create a subdirectory in your cgi-bin directory and name it Forums and copy all files from the 
   Database Files.zip into it.


You can change the database file connection paths from the FrmAppConfig.inc and FrmMaintConfig.inc files
if you choose to setup your directory structure in some other way

Note: Your database files must be in a directory with write permissions

Main forums form is Forums.asp (Frames page)
Main forums maintenance form is default.asp

You can add text and other links to the forums menu from the MenuFooter.html and MenuHeader.html pages 
without interfering with the vbscript code on the menu.asp page.
 
You can add text and other links to the forums body from the BodyFooter.html and BodyHeader.html pages 
without interfering with the vbscript code on the body.asp page.

To use the response notification feature in the forum you will have to open the PostResponseReq.asp page
and go to the area marked "Send Email Notification" and recode for your specific mail component, then
open the FrmAppConfig.inc file and set the "SendNotification" Constant to "yes"

You can turn your language filter to on or off to filter out unwanted language in the forums 
by setting the StrMonitor="yes" or StrMonitor="no" on the FrmAppConfig.inc page

For any further technical help with this application contact Steve Miller @ stevem@nvecs.com






