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Nuld
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 09 May 2002 : 07:47:45
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please accept a warm hello to everyone on the forum (just trying to butter u up before i ask my question that no doubt has been answered a million times b4)
i am totally new to this forum thing so here goes
on trying to run the setup.asp i get the usual not pointing at database message, now i have used the find.asp file in my cgi-bin and it gives me a path of
/webs/whitelabel/freeserve/bp1/www.mywebsite.com/cgi-bin/snitz_forums_2000.mdb
now i am using access 97, but exactly which strconnstring line do i put this into?
i have followed the installation guide and tried all three access 97 options but none seem to work!
ps wot is a brinkster (sorry thicko here)?
cheers for any help
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
26364 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2002 : 07:55:19
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What is your username at brinkster? Your conn string should be:
strConnString = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & Server.MapPath("\YOURUSERNAME\db\snitz_forums_2000.mdb")
where you should replace YOURUSERNAME by your actual user name...
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Nuld
Starting Member
United Kingdom
14 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2002 : 08:32:08
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sorry but i dont even know wot brinkster is?
all i know is that i'm trying to get a forum onto the net using freeserve as a server...
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
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Nuld
Starting Member
United Kingdom
14 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2002 : 11:22:29
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freeserve told me that they supported asp (lieing B*&^%$£ds)
anyway i'll spend the next hour uploading onto brinkster
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Nuld
Starting Member
United Kingdom
14 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2002 : 11:51:25
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i have just spoken to freeserve and they do support asp....
never the less,, given that find.asp gave my pointer to the database as
/webs/whitelabel/freeserve/bp1/www.mywebsite.com/cgi-bin/snitz_forums_2000.mdb
where would i put this in the config.asp file (refering to the installation guide option 1 2 or 3?)
cheers in advance
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
26364 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2002 : 16:41:12
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Nuld, as far as I know, freeserve uses Unix (or Linux servers). Ok, maybe they support ASP, I'd think they use Chili!ASP for that. But if their server is a Linux one you cannot use Access databases, no matter what they tell you. You'll need to use MySQL.
Just check with them what is the OS for their servers, or maybe just post here the URL for your account and I'll check whether that is a *nix based OS or not.
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Nuld
Starting Member
United Kingdom
14 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2002 : 17:35:07
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i have just emailed them i'll find out 2moro,
cheers anyway
looks like i'll need a new host then
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
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Posted - 09 May 2002 : 17:43:15
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Hey Snitz works with MySQL. So you may stay with them as long as they also support MySQL.
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Mark Tab
Starting Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09 May 2002 : 17:54:05
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i have just emailed them i'll find out 2moro,
cheers anyway
looks like i'll need a new host then
Hey are you from the UK? if so check out www.openhosting.co.uk , im with them and they support ASP, even on thier cheapest package.
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Nuld
Starting Member
United Kingdom
14 Posts |
Posted - 10 May 2002 : 03:01:27
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cool i'll look once i've got the missus outa my hair (that i'm loosing rapidly) lol
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
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Posted - 10 May 2002 : 03:07:12
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nuld, can you give me a link to your site at freeserve and or the freeserve home page?
 Nathan Bales
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Nuld
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