Web Wiz Forums doesn't work

I have found from past experience that the latest myODBC driver isn't always the best and rolling back to slightly old myODBC 3.51 drives can often fix errors like this.

We have several hundred of the mySQL versions of Web Wiz Forums running on our servers and are always very cautious of updating the myODBC 3.51 driver as have often found installing the latest driver can course all sorts of issues. Even once after installing the latest driver it killed all our servers, every time the driver came underload it would freeze up all the application pools on the servers preventing all sites that were not static HTML from running. Rolling back to a previous myODBC 3.51 driver fixed the issue.

Better still if you have SQL Server you should use that as SQL Server works much better with ASP than mySQL does due to the bugs in the myODBC 3.51 driver.

As you have access to the server to install myODBC driver then you should also be able to install SQL Server. The free SQL Server Express is ideal for running Web Wiz Forums and actually use the Express edition of SQL Server installed locally to run this forum.


Edited by WebWiz-Bruce - 16 May 2008 at 1:18pm

We are currently running on our servers 3.51.22 without any problem.