Re: Database Connectivity

This probably doesn't help, but if you decide to switch to new software:
I set up Apache on an old PII 233 running Win98 (2nd edition), with
Perl, MySQL, and PHP in about an hour using the online manuals and a
step-by-step from phpbuilder.com.  Its not the same old environment as
Open Source on Linux, but it *does* work (except for a glitch with
executing Perl scripts that I am tracking!)...

Also, Apache makes it easy to set up virtual hosts using one IP or
multiples...nice when you have to mirror more than one client site.  I
set up the directory structure to mirror the server where I put most of
my clients...gives me a local development option that is very
nice...better than I expected on a Windows box.

So, if you don't have any luck with the Microsoft set, I'll look up that
phpbuilder article's URL for you...it's all of 5 short pages...:).

Darrell



----- Original Message -----
From: "David M. Gorjup" <dgorjup(at)flash.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: Database Connectivity


> Hi Y'all,
> Thanks for the quick responses to my database question. I'm checking
out
> each of your suggestions but not sure I'll figure it out tonight.
Anyway to
> answer some of your questions:
>
> I'm using Win98 (not 2nd Edition), MS Access(97 or 2000) as the
database
> (as supplied by Webmonkey), IE 5.00.something or other. The prebuilt
> Webmonkey pages are ASP. I can't find any way to set a Data Source
Name on
> the MS Personal Web Server. My local IP address is 10.1.1.2 as I have
a
> closed intranet with other machines. Localhost is set to 127.0.0.1.
> ODBC is set right as I'm also playing with Access 2000 and Data Access
> Pages from other tutorials and the configs are virtually identical
except
> for the actual database names.
>
> For those who offered offline help, thanks in advance and if the quick
> suggestions don't work, I'll definitely ask for more help in a day or
two.
> Regards,
> Dave G.
>
> At 07:19 PM 01/24/2000 -0500, David M. Gorjup wrote:
> >Hi Y'all,
> >Longtime HWG lurker finally has a question.
> >
> >I went through Webmonkeys beginner's tutorial on database
connectivity(the
> >parking one). Seemed pretty straightforward and configured my system
to
> >try to connect to the access database using Personal Web Server on
the
> >same machine that I'm running the browser, ie a single machine rather
than
> >trying to connect over my intranet to keep things as simple as
possible.
> >
> >For the life of me it just won't work. The first form won't populate
with
> >the info from the database. I've messed with everything I can think
of
> >including tinkering with the ODBC(32 bit) configuration but nothing
seems
> >to work. A friend suggested that I have to have the machine set up
with
> >DNS but I even tried that without success.
> >
> >Does anyone have a clue? Webmonkey doesn't respond to my emails for
help.
> >TIA,
> >Dave G.
> >
>
>
>

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