global.asa

[Guest]

Ok, you probably remember me begging for answers for a problem I was having
with my Form connection to a SQL database. Apparently the global.asa file is
automatically created in the root directory. Well my page with a form is in
a subdirectory. I'm still trying to figure out the difference between
virtual and physical directories but, that's something else. Any who, I was
recieving an error stating the database connection was undefined. I figured
out that the global.asa file wasn't running. I thought it ran when you open
the homepage but, NOT. After it created the global file, I copied it and put
it in the same directory as my Form page and it works. It's slow but, it
works.

Can anyone say if doing this I might have problems down the road? Does
anyone know why it's slow. Is there a way to do an include file to run the
one in the root?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The global.asa file will only fire when the first .asp page is requested. You should make all of
your pages .asp or create your ASP application in a FP subweb/site.

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