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    Posted: 26 October 2004 at 12:39pm

I have had a Web Wiz Forum on a Brinkster Free site for a long while and it works great.  Because I needed space I opened a Brinkster Professional account.  I wanted to move the forum to the new account but the Database pathway changes.  They now have a database folder outside of the webroot that you have to insert all database's in and the forum goes inside the webroot. 

Instead of /username/db/whatever.mdb it is now

/username/database/whatever.mdb.  Has anyone else here run in to a problem similar to mine.  I have searched there database and talked to there support until I am blue.

Thanks

Gary

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This is a modification forum. You need to post in the support forum!

Wrong forum.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote i2Paq Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 October 2004 at 2:20am
Originally posted by internetfixes internetfixes wrote:

Instead of

/username/db/whatever.mdb

it is now

/username/database/whatever.mdb.

What's the problem? Just change the

WWF files and point to where the database is now.

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actually i have a brinkster account and i kept the DB in the folder it came in and it works fine, are you sure the DB has to reside in their database folder?
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I use their database folder and indicate the "Absolute Root Path:" found in the website settings.

Ex. :

'Physical path to database
strDbPathAndName = "c:\sites\XXXXX\XXXXXX\database\XXXXXX.mdb"

and put the other lines in the sections in comment.

Good luck.

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I tried the that path this morning and didn't have any luck with it either.

'Physical path to database
strDbPathAndName = "c:\sites\XXXXX\XXXXXX\database\XXXXXX.mdb"

I am open to any more ideas anyone has.  I sent Brinkster an email this morning but that will probably take about a week.

Thanks

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I also use the Brinkster professional account and everything is working

Only change the question marks(?) for your own site path this is my actual code ...

 '---- Set the path and name of the database ----- 


 strDbPathAndName = "c:\sites\Single??\username\database\??????.mdb" 


 '-------------------------------------------------

you can also check if it points to the right type of database also in the common.asp files

'Database Type
strDatabaseType = "Access"
'strDatabaseType = "SQLServer"

If it doesn't work I would delete the forum and re-upload it. Maybe you have a corrupted file.

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The Brinkster Knowledge Base has a script called exfindyourpath.asp (search the KB for that file name) that you can run that will give you the physical path.  I ran this and assigned the reported path to strDbPathAndName in both common.asp files and everything worked fine.


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