can i change the path to the DB to a DB that found in other site..?

like, i have a "acuant" in WebSamba and it's only 30 MB..so i can open a new "acuant" in lets say..Lycos that he give me 50 MB..and change the path to there...?

oh..to bad :-(

so another Question...can i give 2 pathes to 2 DB?

like iy will read from them both but write only to one of them...

another Question : so if you use SQL.. you can have the DB under a different host domain of your forum?

Thanks in advance

Mart wrote: I don't think so, but why would you want to do that anyway?

because then i cuald make a lote of "acaunt's" no websamba and the forum will read from many databases..what do u think?

Mart,

if access isnt it possible by changing the path 2 db in common.asp to http://www.newsite.com - http://www.newsite.com ??

i son't think so...becxause that way i will can add data let's say to this web site...

???shay

if ur trying to use a free webhost which gives 10mb and use 100mb and then put 10mb on 10diff acs and merge, it ISNT POSSIBLE

check ur pm

What's the point of reading from two data bases but only updating one of them? One of the DB's wouldn't have anything in it.

You may want to think about breaking up the sections of your forum into multiple forums that run on different sites. People would have to register for each site.

well i will explain better...

i host in Websamba..that give u directory like this: d:/freehostxx/name/

now, if i will creat a lote "acuant" so i can use "../" to go to my other "acaunt", u think it will work?

oh...and how can i marge to db together?

1. If you have different logins for each of your accounts, it probably won't work.
2. You can't.

no buy the server build that way:

somebody host is site, the server give him directory in d:/freehostxx/user

lets say that i create acuat name "shay" and another acuant name "shay 1"...now my forum is on "shay" and the forum is in the root directory of "shay", i changw the path to the db to: ../../freehostxx/shay 1/admin/database/wwforum.mdb

it's possible?

The parent path for each of your accounts may look the same, but there's no guarantee that they are on the same server.

Accounts are separate entities, you can not go up one account's domain  path and over to another account. IIS prohibits that or else I'd be able to go from my account over to your account.

If you have multiple webroots (domains) under one account, you can go up the path, but not over to another webroot. If you put your db in a directory above the webroots in the path, both webroots can hit it.

i dont get a thing from what u just saying dpyers...but nether mind

what is: "physical path "?

the whole path to a file

for example C:\shay\database.mdb

you might be able to use physical path, as it is a free host..

and they SUCKS

AnthraX wrote: you might be able to use physical path, as it is a free host.. and they SUCKS

Got that right!

I signed up with them to check it out, but they seem to have a delay of some hours before sending the login/password. Apparently I can't pick my own when I register. Just hope they're not spam harvesters.

no.

they send u a mail after a day...u can check ur emial now...:-)

Just got the email and setup http://www.websamba.com/dpyers - http://www.websamba.com/dpyers

They do not allow you to have any directories above the root web space and you can only have one site per account, so you can't share a database between sites that way.

Just a tip...

You'll have to have your access data base in your webspace. This means that anyone who knows what application you're running can figure out where to go to download it.

To prevent this, rename your database from mydatabase.mdb to mydatabase.asp. Change any references to it in the code to end in .asp as well.

The code can still read/write to it as an access database no matter what you name it. By naming it with .asp, if anyone tries to download it, the webserver will try to serve it up as an asp script, and the user will get an error.

nice tip...thx...