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forest-creature 
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 Topic: apologies- brinkster question
Posted: 04 September 2003 at 1:38pm |
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hi, im jason and i dont know much about ASP itself,
but im not a total web dev rookie
i was trying to set up the forum scripts on Brinkster
and after uploading everything i tried to run it (typing
the path to default.asp in the "forum" folder
however i got an error message saying that the
include file SQL_server_connection.asp could not be
found
so i uploaded the one from the admin folder to the
main forum directory where the default.asp file lives
however i then got this error message:
"Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0400'
Expected statement
/jasonmusil/forum/default.asp, line 2
Option Explicit
^"
i know more or less why option explicit exists, so im
wondering if introducing the include file from another
folder made problems
is it just a case of adding the line to the default.asp
file?
and was i right in copying the include file to the forum
directory?
thanks
jason
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Posted: 04 September 2003 at 1:47pm |
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Try a clean install without adding other files and see if that works. It could also be a corrupted file coursing the problems.
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Posted: 04 September 2003 at 1:57pm |
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i had tried it twice, each time on a new brinkster
account, before i posted this question, but i always
uploaded from the same directory on my desktop
ill have a go at downloading a fresh copy from your
site
the only thing i can think of is that maybe i didnt
upload correctly
i know the instructions specified exactly which
directories to create, but i created all of the
directories exactly as they were (with all the relevant
files in place) from the forum directory onwards,
should i have uploaded the files from directories not
listed in the instructions into the parent directory?
thanks
jason
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Posted: 04 September 2003 at 2:27pm |
The error looks to me like a corrupted file, or if you have changed the files to include a file of your own then it may have an option explicit statement in it.
If you use option explicit twice you will get this type of error.
So if you have link to your own include file make sure there is no option explicit within that file, if there is remove it.
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Posted: 05 September 2003 at 10:41am |
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"Create the following directories in the forum
directory you have just created.
1. admin
2. forum_images
3. avatars
4. smileys"
is it only these directories that need to be created in
the forum directory? cos i created all the others
(includes etc.) just as they were in the forum folder
as i downloaded it
and if this is not right, where do i upload the relevant
files to?
also, i was not using any of my own files (im not that
good at ASP yet :)
thanks
jason
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Posted: 07 September 2003 at 8:13pm |
Hey,
you have to create all the directories, not just the ones in the directions, and upload all the files in them. Dont why the instructions left that out.
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Posted: 10 September 2003 at 3:40pm |
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SQL Server is not by default supported by Brinkster. You must add it.
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