I'm new to asp and pretty new to message boards although I participate in them and have one cgi based one working.
I've tried to install snitz and followed the readme instructions which compared to cgi seemed really simple. But it's not working. When I try to open setup.asp I get 'The page cannot be displayed - There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed.'
I know I'm hosted on a windows machine, but little more than that. Is there anything special I need in terms of hosting that I should be asking for to get this to work?
in my config.asp i've made the link to the access database (the standard one that comes with zip) strConnString = "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=" & Server.MapPath("/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/snitz_forums_2000.mdb") '## MS Access 97 using virtual path
my ftp path looks like /e:/101/man-friday.co.uk/user/htdocs/theforum (this is where i put most files) /e:/101/man-friday.co.uk/user/htdocs/cgi-bin/ (this is where I put the db)
Sounds to me like your host is not allowing the execution of the setup.asp page. Double check with your host to see if they allow you to run .asp pages.
thanks everyone for your help - at least I'm not loosing it ;-) I'm going to try the below (thanks for it) and if that doesn't work will check with host to ensure they're not blocking.
any other thoughts welcome.
Andrew
quote: Try this one: strConnString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=e:\101\man-friday.co.uk\user\htdocs\cgi-bin\snitz_forums_2000.mdb;" '## MS Access 2000
If that doesn't work, then I'd contact your host and make sure your cgi-bin directory has read/write permissions.
Ok I've moved forward a bit thanks to eric and spoon's comments. I rang the host provider and they were able to 'switch on asp' which hadn't be done.
I had downloaded find.asp via spoon to check the location of my db and that worked fine returning the path. (So we now know asp is working).
But then after editing the config.asp such that strConnString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=e:\domains\man-friday.co.uk\user\htdocs\cgi-bin\snitz_forums_2000.mdb;" '## MS Access 2000
as per spoon's tutorial (thanks btw) when i try and load the page i just get a blank screen. No welcome message or anything.
so something has to be wrong?
I'm not sure if I'm using access97/2k it's what ever db came as standard. But the above should work for both.
any ideas?
Andrew
quote: There is a link in my signature that may help you
Regards - Spoon
Begineer? Need help installing the forums? - www.aslickpage.com/snitz_help.html
sorry i think i was having dumb for a few minutes there... i was calling the config.asp then wondering why i couldn't see anything - setup.asp was what i wanted doh!
thanks for all your help once again.. it was scarily easy to install once asp was enabled by host and config so far looks simple.
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Posted - 02 August 2001 : 05:10:22
