IIS + DAP

[Mike]

Have a small data base and want a Data Access Page to be viewable for
customers.

Have installed IIS on my XP Pro system and have both mdb and DAP in the
wwwroot directory.

However, when I tried to access DAP from outside the intranet, it is not
accessible... throws back a message about MS Office Web Components (which I
have downloaded latest and installed) and won't access the data provider.

(1) what am I doing wrong?
(2) any literature or help available? (I think it's a IIS configuration
problem, but am unsure.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Sylvain Lafontaine]

Sorry, but you cannot access a MDB file over the Internet (WAN) if you are
not using a VPN; only over the local LAN. You'll to replace the MDB file
with MSDE or SQL-Server Express 2005 as the backend database. However, even
this last solution won't work for many of your customers because they will
be located behind a firewall that will block the port 1433.

A much better and universal solution would be to use something else, like
ASP.NET, to show your database over the Internet.