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lbeachmike
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - 26 February 2001 : 17:45:27
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Hey guys - since I'm pretty new with NT and with Access Databases, I ran into this common problem.
After much searching around the board, I finally got on the right track, so I thought I'd share my resolution with a Subject line that would be easy for others to find.
While I'm certain that incorrect file or directory permissions could indeed be the case, it seems that a well-run server is setup with a directory designated for database files.
After poking around, I found that there was a /db/ directory alongside my /www/ directory. I utilized the "whereami.asp" mod which is offered on this forum under "Forum Setup Tools".
After placing this into my /www/ directory, where I'd know it's address, I then pointed my browser at www.mydomain.com/whereami.asp
It then provides the current path.
This path turned out to be:
d:\root\MYUSERNAME\MYDOMAIN.COM\www\whereami.asp
since my \db\ directory is also directly off of \MYDOMAIN.COM\, all I had to do was substitute the \www\ with \db\ and the "whereami.asp" with "snitz_forums_2000.mdb".
This gives me a path of:
d:\root\MYUSERNAME\MYDOMAIN.COM\db\snitz_forums_2000.mdb
I changed it and it worked like a charm.
I'm sure this may be different on different hosts, so you can always ask your host where you need to place your .mdb file if you can't otherwise locate the right directory by poking around.
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Hope the above was helpful.
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