ASP newbie :(

sinus

K so i am an ASP newbie who has been given a site to host.
i have a hosting package with chillisoft ASP and w Frontpage ext. installed

I have uploaded the site but i know thats not all i have to do...its not plug and play!

When i view the site i get HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden.....

can ne1 help me and stupid self ??

shame on me

seamus

Sounds like the permissions aren't set correctly. Afaik, you need to set the directories as world-readable.

sinus

have opened up my cp and the main asp page is set like this:

-rw-r--r-- 33 kb 18-Jun-2004 4:26 default.asp

?

seamus

Usually it's two things - Either the permissions on the directory aren't set right (as opposed to the files within the directory), or the server isn't using default.asp as the default page when you type www.mydomain.com

sinus

changed default.asp to index.asp
now i am getting this in IE

ADODB.Connection.1 error '80004005'

SQLState: IM002
Native Error Code: 0
[INTERSOLV][ODBC lib] Data source name not found and no default driver specified


config.asp, line 19



checked a few lines in config.asp

' Open connection to database
sDBName = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & DATA_PATH
Set objConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConn.Open sDBName '// Pre-defined ODBC data source

damnyanks

Means the datasource has not been created. Can you create datasources on *nix?

sinus

found my answer?


Chilisoft supports ADO, but you can't put an Access .mdb file on a *nix server. You might want to consider MySQL if you need an alternate db.

poo! looks like a new hosting plan for me!

seamus

Originally posted by sinus
found my answer?


Chilisoft supports ADO, but you can't put an Access .mdb file on a *nix server. You might want to consider MySQL if you need an alternate db.

poo! looks like a new hosting plan for me!

Why?
Would it be so much trouble to convert your Access DB to MySQL?

sinus

new to asp !
havent a clue about access !
and well mysql...see above !

one of these days

mneylon

If you are new to ASP do not try using Chillisoft. You will end up getting very frustrated and confused.
Chillisoft is a *nix port of ASP, but does not support all of the ASP commands etc.,

Get yourself a windows hosting package with:
ASP
ASP.net

and you can easily use access etc.,

The one thing to watch out for is that on Windows Server 2003 the security is tighter, so you may need to check with your provider before "dropping in" scripts etc.

(parent directory stuff etc.)

HTH

sinus

kinda had to suffice with chillisoft as my host is *nix based...first time i had to host an ASP db so thats why i hadnt a clue...

i am trying to port the DB now to MySQL instead of using new host, using navicat but failing like limbless monkey!