[AccessD] Access database on the Internet

Worked on one hosted DB. The Access back end was FTPd up to a folder on the
web Server used ODBC for the connections and ASP for the pages. Worked like
a charm. Still sworking.

Martin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drew Wutka" <DWUTKA at marlow.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:20 PM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Access database on the Internet


> Yes, but not the way you are thinking.  The first sub-contract job I did
for
> my sister was for a company that was hosted by a hosting company that
> 'supported' Access.  It also supported ActiveX .dll's.  So I wrote a .dll
to
> interact with the database, the .dll used ADO to connect to the db, and
for
> the path to the db, it just used the path to the .dll.  Therefore, I
> uploaded the .dll and the db to the same folder.  Worked like a charm.
>
> In most occasions, I am writing stuff for IIS servers I have DIRECT access
> too.  In those cases, I actually put the .mdb in a location that is NOT
> visible to the web, then I hard code the actual path into the .dll.  Thus,
> the asp pages can interact with the .dll, but the .mdb is never directly
> visible to the user.
>
> Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven W. Erbach [mailto:serbach at new.rr.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 4:07 PM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: [AccessD] Access database on the Internet
>
>
> Dear Group,
>
> Have any of you uploaded an Access back end to a web server capable of
> "handling" Access? I'm a bit confused by my web host's claim to support
> unlimited Access databases. Are we talking uploading the back end, say,
and
> establishing an ODBC link to it sort of like an ODBC link to a SQL Server
> database?
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve Erbach
> Scientific Marketing
> Neenah, WI
>
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