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rodritchie
Starting Member
Australia
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 Posted - 12 December 2000 : 05:31:01
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If I am a normal internet user who has some webspace on my ISPs server, can a forum be set up on that webpage?
If I download the software what do I do with it? Obviously it can't run from my own computer because most of the time it is not 'online'. Therefore can the software be set up on the webpage space provided for me by my ISP?
Regards
Rod Ritchie
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20600 Posts |
Posted - 12 December 2000 : 05:51:13
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As long as your ISP supports ASP, then you can run it from your webspace.
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davemaxwell
Access 2000 Support Moderator
USA
3020 Posts |
Posted - 12 December 2000 : 08:24:02
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That is correct. As long as ASP runs on your space, you can run the forums.
Basically what you do to run it (this information is all in the readme.txt file BTW):
1) Load all the ASP and GIF files except for config.asp into a directory on your server
2) Load the database into a directory on your server (should be a different folder than the rest of your files). This directory needs to have read/write access on both the directory AND the database.
3) Change the config.asp to match the type of database you're running and the location of the database.
4) start to use the forum!!
Dave Maxwell
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20600 Posts |
Posted - 12 December 2000 : 08:49:33
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This may sound a bit daft, but some people will follow your instructions, and won't be able to run the forum cos you didn't tell them to upload config.asp after editing it.
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rodritchie
Starting Member
Australia
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Posted - 13 December 2000 : 02:32:02
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Great, thank to both of you.
I will download and see how I go. thanks for the prompt replies, too!
Regards
Rodd
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davemaxwell
Access 2000 Support Moderator
USA
3020 Posts |
Posted - 13 December 2000 : 08:40:18
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This may sound a bit daft, but some people will follow your instructions, and won't be able to run the forum cos you didn't tell them to upload config.asp after editing it.
'Resistance is futile'
DOH!!!!
Dave Maxwell
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rodritchie
Starting Member
Australia
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Posted - 16 December 2000 : 08:32:33
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Hi Again,
In step 3 it refers to a database. Is this a separate program? Basically, how does the database part of it work?
Kind regards
Rod
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
16655 Posts |
Posted - 16 December 2000 : 08:40:55
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| The database is located in tools.zip which is inside the .zip file you downloaded from here. It's called snitz_forums_2000.mdb.< |
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Doug G
Support Moderator
USA
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Posted - 16 December 2000 : 13:56:14
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After an adventure trying to cut and paste from notepad to this forum, I wrote an explanation about web servers, databases, ado and Snitz, and put it at http://www.pe.net/~dgorin/snitz/
I wanted to post it here but I'm getting strange results pasting from W2K notepad (everything comes out doublespaced in the browser, although the text looks fine in this posting window), and also the inability to post long text here.
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rodritchie
Starting Member
Australia
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Posted - 17 December 2000 : 01:18:34
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Thanks Richard and Doug.
I've read both the posts and the link. This is very early days for me (setting up a forum) so please forgive me for not understanding it too well.
My level of understanding in setting up webpages, and so on, is:
- I can use the net no problems,
- I can upload files to a server,
- I can create reasonable html pages and make them work.
Therefore, I can upload the Snitz forum files to a server (using the necessary folders).
But step 3 refers to '...the type of database you're running...'!!!
I can edit 'config.asp' to show the location of the database on the server, but I don't understand '..the type of database I am running...'!
I hope you can understand what I am asking!
Kind regards
Rod Ritchie
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
16655 Posts |
Posted - 17 December 2000 : 01:53:04
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How to set up a forum?
