Database Interface Wizard

[Guest]

Hi,
I have a website that I publish to a Server. The Server is MS 2003 and has
2002 server extension on it. I am using Frontpage 2003.

I have a database in the fpdb folder. I have created a database extension.
Then I try to use the Database Interface Wizard to create pages to use the
database. I publish the site. At that point when I veiw thesepages, I only
get error messages saying the page cannot be viewed. If I create new webage
and use the
Insert-->Database-->Review or create a Form and use the connection. When I
publish these pages...they work.
Is there some sort of bug in the Database Interface Wizard or am I not doing
something correctly.

 

[Ronx]

What are the error messages?
Are the pages viewable by the public, if so, what is the URL?

 

[Guest]

Ronx,
The root website can be seen at http://snr-0563.unl.edu:9006/
The first two links are to files I made with the wizard. The third is the
submit form from the wizard with a lot of stuff deleted out.
The last two are the files I made from "scratch" using the Insert or Form.
Thanks.

What are the error messages?
Are the pages viewable by the public, if so, what is the URL?

 

[Ronx]

Your server does not allow Parent Paths. The error message on the first
link explains what to do, but not how.

Allowing parent paths can be a security risk - a badly, or maliciously,
written asp page can refer to files above the root of the web, IIS6 (in
Windows 2003) defaults to disallowing parent paths.

There are three choices:
1 Ask your host or server admin to allow parent paths in your website.
This is easiest, if your host is willing.
2 Code your own ASP pages to interact with the database.
3 Move all your pages to the root folder of the web. There will be some
hand changes to be made, since the paths in the <!--#include
file="../../blah "--> will not be altered by FrontPage. These paths must
lose the ../ parts, hence moving the pages to the root folder.

--
Ron Symonds (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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Ronx,
The root website can be seen at http://snr-0563.unl.edu:9006/
The first two links are to files I made with the wizard. The third is the
submit form from the wizard with a lot of stuff deleted out.
The last two are the files I made from "scratch" using the Insert or Form.
Thanks.