Re: Database Connectivity

One thing that might cause your forms to not populate given the set of
information you described, and that is the establishment of a valid DSN
(Data Source Name) through your Personal Web Server.  I'm not sure exactly
how to do it in PWS (give me ColdFusion or IIS) but it is the procedure in
any server environment for associating the database with the script or web
page.  It usually involves using some sort of user interface that allows you
to give the data source a "friendly" name, then browse for the folder or
file the DNS points at.  This associates the data source to the script
calling the data.  If you want to contact me offline, I may be able to find
a copy of PWS and help further.  My guess is the PWS Help menu may get you
there.

Gary Churchman
Director, Production and Design
MedSeek
gchurchman(at)medseek.com



-----Original Message-----
From: David M. Gorjup <dgorjup(at)flash.net>
To: hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Date: Monday, January 24, 2000 4:50 PM
Subject: Database Connectivity


>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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