From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 17:39:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12004.mail.yahoo.com (web12004.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.172.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B390C37B41B for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:39:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020404013939.8830.qmail@web12004.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [165.228.7.207] by web12004.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:39:39 EST Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:39:39 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Keith=20Spencer?= Subject: Re: access database connectivity under mod_frontpage To: fbsd Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020403145618.0188c8b8@mail.sage-one.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sun make Chilisoft ASP which can run on FBSD (Linux mode) They also can supply a mini server which runs on a windows machine where the Access DBs are so that when an ASP page on the FreeBSD/ChiliASP machine require DBconnectivity to the Access DB it is supplied ODBC by the miniserver on the Windoze machine...it works too. --- Server Admin wrote: > At 02:51 PM 4.3.2002 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > >In the last episode (Apr 03), Peter Brezny said: > >> Is it possible to get a front page site hosted > under mod_frontpage on > >> FreeBSD 4.5 to connect to an access > database...well I guess what I > >> really want to know, is whether or not it's > possible to put the > >> access database data on the webserver running > mod_frontpage. > > > >The only software capable of reading an Access > database is the MS Jet > >DB engine, which only runs on Windows. There is no > ODBC connectivity > >to Access. You would be much better off converting > to a MySQL or > >PostgreSQL backend, both of which have excellent > Unix and Windows > >compatibility. > > > >-- > > Dan Nelson > > dnelson@allantgroup.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message > > > > > > mSQL2.0 works too.... > > .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ > > Best regards, > > Jack L. Stone > Server Admin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message http://www.sold.com.au - SOLD.com.au Auctions - 1,000s of Bargains! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message