Help with connecting to Access 1

[qwert85103]

Hello,

I am fairly new to frontpage. I am trying to connect a very simple Access database with FrontPage (even consulted the FrontPage help), but didn't work. Actually, I was able to create a form and corresponding database but had the following problem.

Problem:- I am able to preview the form from inside frontpage. But when I preview the form in browser, it just shows me bunch of html code. It says, your server (my desktop in this case) does not support .asp

How do I solve this issue? Thanks!

 

[Noconi]

To test or preview ASP pages on your hard drive you will need to install IIS (or PWS for older versions of FP and Windows) and run the page against the server - as opposed to a disk based web. It sounds like you don't have IIS installed or running and/or the page you have created is not stored in the defailt directory for IIS.

HTH
Tiffany

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[qwert85103]

Tiffany,

I am still having problems with the forms page, could you please tell where the default IIS directory is?

Thanks.

 

[Noconi]

If you have IIS installed, then the default directory is C:\Inetpub\

http://wwwrootEach

web would be stored in it's own folder in that directory, like:
C:\Inetpub\

http://wwwroot\web1

C:\Inetpub\

http://wwwroot\web2

Now, to access them via the browser or FP as a server based web then you would use a URL like:

http://localhost/web1

http://localhost/web2

If you are trying to send form results by email and testing this on your local machine then you also need to configure the FP server extensions for email transport - the SMTP info. What version FP server extensions are you running on IIS?

Tiffany

Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.at-frontpage.com

http://www.anyfrontpage.com

http://www.frontpage-webtemplates.com

 

[qwert85103]

Thanks, I will try and will let you know how it comes up!!

 

[qwert85103]

Thanks Tiffany...it finally worked!!

Another small question..I was trying to upload this to geocities. It lets you browse for files one by one, do I need to upload all of them one by one or is there another more systematic way to publish your website such that you just have to specify one file and it uploads all other connected pages/databases with it??

Thank you so much.

 

[Noconi]

I don't know if geocities supports FP server extensions, but on a server that does you can use the built in Publish feature and FP will simply publish all changed files up to the remote server for you. With newer versions of FP you can choose to just publish a single file or select group of files too, but the FIL > PUBLISH WEB feature is really quick and easy.

Tiffany

Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

http://www.at-frontpage.com

http://www.anyfrontpage.com

http://www.frontpage-webtemplates.com

 

[qwert85103]

Thanks.