Active Server Pages - MSAccess - and Frontpage (help please!)

[Brad Bible]

I'll try to make as much sense as possible with my question but forgive me if
I am a little vague - ASP is new to me.

I've been using Frontpage (currently 2002) for a while now in order to do
websites. Most webs that I have worked on were fairly simple and did not
require any databases.

Recently at my work we have been presented with the need of developing a
better way to track projects. Since all our PCs have Internet Explorer on
them (and several, including mine, have MSAccess) the suggestion had been
made to develop a project tracking system that could be accessed over our
intranet via Internet Explorer.

My first thought was to make use of the FrontPage template function that
allows a person to create a web with a database. I did this and set up a
very basic website - however, I am unable to use the website because I am
unable to publish it.
The error message I am receiving is:

"The following pages in your Web are Active Server Pages (ASP). They will
not work because the server you are publishing to does not support ASP."

The window then goes on to list several pages. I understand that I am
getting this error because I am not publishing this to a 'web' site -
however, is there anyway that I can accomplish my goal since I am attempting
to publish to my server instead?

 

[Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FrontPage]]

What kind of server are you trying to publish to? It must be a Windows
server that supports ASP and Access to do what you want to do, and your
users must be able to open the site as http://yourintranet in their browser.

--
~ Kathleen Anderson
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
Spider Web Woman Designs
web: http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/
blog: http://msmvps.com/spiderwebwoman/category/321.aspx

 

[Ronx]

To run ASP pages you must publish to a web site on a server that supports
ASP.
To use an Access database on the web your web server must be running on a
Windows platform.
To accomplish your goal you must have a web site on a web server (IIS)
running on Windows.

 

[Harddrive747]

Brad, I am not a Microsoft MVP, but I have complete developed a web site
using ASP pages.

Here's what I have had to do to test my pages. I work with Windows XP on a
stand alone computer, no server. I have installed IIS on it. Then when I
create a page or want to check to see if something is working, I then go to
my browser and type in the URL line "localhost/<page name>.asp"

What this will do is to activate the web server engine and display the page.
This way I don't have to be connect to the Internet, or to a server to test
my changes.

I hope this helps.
Terry

 

[Andrew Murray]

You're getting the error because your web server (in your IT dept) does *not*
support ASP (as the message says).

The database functions require ASP, running Windows 2000 (or XP/Server 2003) and
Internet Information Service (IIS) plus the Frontpage Server Extensions. If you
have all these then you will probably get your site and the database functions to
work.