Hi.

I just downloaded and installed the forum. I followed all the instructions. I moved the database to a new location but I changed both the common.asp files in the main and admin dir.

The first thing I did is go to my website and load the login_user.asp page and got a login dialog, i entered "administrator" and "letmein" then entered the text image data correctly and clicked login, then all i get is a "page cannot be displayed" but no error message datails. I noticed that the documents said the host must support a non-dsn connection string and I don't know if mine does or not, because the only way i can connect to a mysql database is with a dsn, but i dont know if thats the same with access or not.

what could be wrong? what do i do next?

thanks!

a page cannot be displayed might be that a file is missing or corrupt. What happens if you just call the default.asp page even though there is no data yet? Worst case try re-uploading the files.

ok, I contacted my admin. I don't know whats wrong. He created a special folder for access databases on my server. I put the database in that folder and then tried to open the forum again, when I hit default.asp I get this error,

Microsoft JET Database Engine error '80004005'

Operation must use an updateable query.

/common.asp, line 424

When I try to hit user_login.asp I get this error,

HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found

My admin told me I needed to use this connection string to connect to the database, will this work with the forum? If so how can I use it instead of what ever it's using now?

Connection string for a password-protected database looks like this:

strConn = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};" & _
"dbq=" & Server.MapPath("/_data/yourdatabase.mdb") & _
";pwd=myPassword"

without password protection:

strConn = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};" & _
"dbq=" & Server.MapPath("/_data/yourdatabase.mdb")

Thanks.