MS Access Database not detected

[JMM1028 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I am trying to create a user authentication system. I have put a Microsoft Access database containing the login information in the site folder. When I try assigning server behaviours to the login page, my database does not appear in the window. How do I make the database useable?

Thanks.

[MLangner-MMTS]

What server model are you using? Have you tried creating an ODBC binding
to your MS access database? Simply putting the Access database in the
site folder is not going to allow Dreamweaver to know that the database
is available for connections, nor how to connect to it. Also, I don't
recommend keeping it there in case you accidentally upload it to your
host into a public directory. It would allow anyone to directly download
your whole database.

-- Mike

"JMM1028" [email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

> I am trying to create a user authentication system. I have put a
> Microsoft Access database containing the login information in the
> site folder. When I try assigning server behaviours to the login
> page, my database does not appear in the window. How do I make the
> database useable?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>

[MLangner-MMTS]

Ok, but what server model are you using? ASP? ColdFusion? You can
already get this set up so long as you know how to create an ODBC
datasource and have a web server on your PC capable of processing a
server-side language.

-- Mike

"JMM1028" com wrote: 

[Les]

Another way to phrase what Mike called a 'server model' might be 'scripting
language'. If you do not yet know what server model / language (i.e. ASP,
PHP, Cold Fusion, etc.) you will use, you cannot begin to build any web
pages that will interact with your database.

You could go ahead and pick one that you feel comfortable with learning and
start working on your site. You then pick a hosting service that supports
your selected server model. It should be easy to find a web host that will
support your server model regardless of which one you select.

Once you have selected a server model, people here can assist you with
creating your user authentication system. Remember, step one in the critical
path toward building your system is selecting a server model.

"JMM1028" <com> wrote in message
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it myself. I will be using a hosting service, and I do not yet know which
one I am going to use; therfore I don't know anything about the server yet. 

[JMM1028]

I will most likely be using ASP with a Microsoft Access database.