FP 2002 Database project

[Maurice]

Greetings:

I have followed the instructions as per the tutorial page:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/content/ARTICLES/dbpower.html#_Toc517024649
I see the tabs for results, submission, database, login, index and edit.
This is where the tutorial information falls off. I am a novice in frontpage
but have general computer experience. Could this be uploaded as is?

- It is not clear to me whether this site generates an Access database
locally and posts the database to a hosted website or can one login to the
hosted website and submit/maintain data on the web?
- My reading says that this website cannot work unless frontpage extensions
and ASP are enabled. I recall downloading frontpage extensions but not ASP.
How can I confirm that both of these addons exist on my computer?
- I acutally own Frontpage 2003 but have not installed. Is the database
template any better/easier?
- I do have a hosted website and intend to upload this as a subweb when all
items are correct. This machine has XP Pro SP2. Don't know if this fact
makes a difference

 

[Kathleen Anderson]

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Greetings:

I have followed the instructions as per the tutorial page:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/content/ARTICLES/dbpower.html#_Toc517024649
I see the tabs for results, submission, database, login, index and edit.
This is where the tutorial information falls off. I am a novice in
frontpage
but have general computer experience. Could this be uploaded as is?

Yes, it can be published to a Windows server that supports Access and ASP.

- It is not clear to me whether this site generates an Access database
locally and posts the database to a hosted website or can one login to the
hosted website and submit/maintain data on the web?

Depending on how you ran the wizard, it either uses an existing database on
your PC or creates one for you on the fly. Either way, tthe database will
get published when you publish the rest of the web site. The databse can be
updated on your host server by using the Add, Edit and Delete pages.

Once you have published from your PC to your live site, you should mark the
database on your PC as "Do Not Publish". Otherwise you will overwrite the
database on your live site every time you publish from that point on.

- My reading says that this website cannot work unless frontpage
extensions
and ASP are enabled. I recall downloading frontpage extensions but not
ASP.
How can I confirm that both of these addons exist on my computer?

If you are running Windows XP Pro, you can install IIS (Internet Information
Server). To see if you have this, click this link: http://localhost

- I acutally own Frontpage 2003 but have not installed. Is the database
template any better/easier?

I belive they are the same in 2002 and 2003.

- I do have a hosted website and intend to upload this as a subweb when
all
items are correct. This machine has XP Pro SP2. Don't know if this fact
makes a difference.

See above re: IIS. It makes a difference in that you can test locally before
publishing.

 

[Maurice]

I have followed this thread and installed IIS 5.1 to this machine. My
reading indicates that the installation of Microsoft Management Console is
useful for administering subwebs which is the intention for this database
site. I have used IIS to locate the interface page but do not know how to
proceed. How does one configure this to launch the website locally? I could
find no documentation. Looking for simple 1-2-3 directions if possible.

 

[Ronx]

Open the browser, then use URL similar to
http://localhost/subwebname/pagename.asp where subwebname is the path
to the pagename.asp from the web's root folder.

If you have the IIS default website located at c:\inetpub\wwwroot (the
usual location), and you have installed FrontPage extensions on IIS,
then the website should be published to http://localhost/subwebname,
then use the above URL to test.
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