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fastflag
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 Posted - 26 June 2001 : 22:11:08
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what would the strDBType be for a UNIX server? I am hosted by nomonthlyfees.com and I do not understand the 3rd step in the installation.
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3. Open the config.asp file in your favorite text editor (DO NOT USE FRONTPAGE FOR THIS !).
a. Remove the ' in front of the "strDBType" variable with the database type you want to use.
b. Update the "strConnString" variable with the correct path to your .MDB file or to the SQL-server database
Make sure you remove the ' in front of the variablestring you want to use.
c. If you need to rename the prefix on your tables, then update the
"strTablePrefix" variable as appropriate. For a first install the default setting doesn't need to be changed.
d. If you are sharing a member list with another version of these forums,
then update the "strMemberTablePrefix" to point to that list in the same
Database. For a first install the default setting doesn't need to be changed.
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THIS WHOLE STEP, I DONT UNDERSTAND |
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Space_Cowboy
Starting Member
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Posted - 26 June 2001 : 23:54:22
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what would the strDBType be for a UNIX server? I am hosted by nomonthlyfees.com and I do not understand the 3rd step in the installation.
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3. Open the config.asp file in your favorite text editor (DO NOT USE FRONTPAGE FOR THIS !).
a. Remove the ' in front of the "strDBType" variable with the database type you want to use.
b. Update the "strConnString" variable with the correct path to your .MDB file or to the SQL-server database
Make sure you remove the ' in front of the variablestring you want to use.
c. If you need to rename the prefix on your tables, then update the
"strTablePrefix" variable as appropriate. For a first install the default setting doesn't need to be changed.
d. If you are sharing a member list with another version of these forums,
then update the "strMemberTablePrefix" to point to that list in the same
Database. For a first install the default setting doesn't need to be changed.
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THIS WHOLE STEP, I DONT UNDERSTAND
For starters, unless your unix server has iASP software, you need to find another server because your fourm won't even work on such a server! As for your second question, what it is basicly telling you to do is to delete the "'" thingy that is found leftmost in the config.asp file. Scroll down using a text editor until you see something like this:
'server = access
You should see three of these type of lines. Remove the ' from ONE of these (the one your server supports, but for sanity's sake, remove the ' from the access server.
Next, you want to keep scrolling down (not very far though) until you see several long complicated looking lines with ' infront of them. Remove the ' from the line that has access2000 at the end. Then, acquire the path to your database (url) and put it so that it looks something like this: /*location*/whatever-your-database-is-called.db . I put my database in the same location as my fourm is for simplicity. If you do the same, just put this in instead: whatever-your-database-is-called.db . This should solve your problems and if it doesn't, you'll have to ask someone else!
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Doug G
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Posted - 27 June 2001 : 00:11:08
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For starters, unless your unix server has iASP software
I don't know that Snitz will run under iASP, unless you've gotten it going.
*nix servers with ChiliSoft work. Your host needs to provide a dsn for an Access database, or you can us MySql.
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