Dreamweaver & DSNless connection

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Dreamweaver & DSNless connection
I am fairly familiar with Dreamweaver and creating static web
pages. However this is my first attempt at a dynamic webpage and I
have hit several hurdles.
First I setup a DSN connection...but was later told by my
host that a DSNless connection would work better. So that is what I
am not working on.
They told me to use the following script
Set oConn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
filePath = Server.MapPath("Your Access DB File")
oConn.Open("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="
+filePath)
So I did that I entered this script into the Database/Custom
Connection String/Connection string in Dreamweaver CS3
Set oConn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection"); filePath =
Server.MapPath("echohockeydb.mdb");
oConn.Open("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="
+\echohockey\Database)
When I click "Test" I get the following error
Unknown error 0x800A0BB9
Arguements are of the wrong type, are out of acceptable
range, or are in conflict with one another.
Since I am just learning, I don't know if I entered the
information in the script wrong, or if my problem lies elsewhere.
The really frustrating part is that my page is uploaded and it
works, but I need to change the data that is on the page. When I go
back to add/edit the record sets it tells me that it cannot find
the record set or the database connection.
Is the problem obvious? Do you need mor info to troubleshoot?
Sorry for this question, I am teetering on the edge of being out of
my league with this project.
THANKS!

Answer 1

"Dante2004" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Still working on this...
>
> Learning more as I go...I have two connection files for
the DSNless
> connection
>
> connECHOHockey.asp
> <%
> Set oConn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
> filePath = Server.MapPath("Database\echohockeydb.mdb")
> oConn.Open("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data
Source=" +filePath)
> %>
>
> And connECHOHockey2.asp
> <%
> ' FileName="Connection_ado_conn_string.htm"
> ' Type="ADO"
> ' DesigntimeType="ADO"
> ' HTTP="true"
> ' Catalog=""
> ' Schema=""
> Dim MM_connECHOHockey2
> MM_connECHOHockey2_STRING = Driver={Microsoft Access
Driver (*.mdb)}
> Dbq=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\echohockey\Database\echohoc
keydb.mdb;
> %>
>
> I figured out why the pages that work, are working. They
are referencing
> connECHOHockey.asp The problem is, that when I goto
Application|Databases
> in
> DW, it only lists connECHOHockey2.asp When I go into the
> connECHOHockey2.asp
> database to add bindings, it says that it is unable to
select tables with
> this
> connection. If I goto databases and test the connection
I get this
> error...
>
> "Format of the initialization string does not conform to
the OLE DB
> specification".
>
> I haven't gotten this error before. Not sure if this is
progress or not.
Unless the forum mangled your code (doesn't seem like it
because
connECHOHockey looks okay)
You are missing quotes in the MM_connECHOHockey2_STRING
connectionstring
MM_connECHOHockey2_STRING = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver
(*.mdb)};Dbq=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\echohockey\Database\echohoc
keydb.mdb;"
The problem with MapPath in a dreamweaver connectionstring is
that
dreamweaver doesn't execute that function, you can try fixing
this by
defining the connectionstring twice, first with the full path
of the
database on your local machine (this is what dreamweaver will
use), and
second with the mappath, it'll override the connectionstring
when the page
is executed by the server, but not by Dreamweaver because it
only looks for
the first string.
<%
' FileName="Connection_ado_conn_string.htm"
' Type="ADO"
' DesigntimeType="ADO"
' HTTP="true"
' Catalog=""
' Schema=""
Dim MM_connECHOHockey2
MM_connECHOHockey2_STRING = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver
(*.mdb)};Dbq=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\echohockey\Database\echohockeydb.mdb;"
MM_connECHOHockey2_STRING = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver
(*.mdb)};Dbq="
& Server.MapPath("Database\echohockeydb.mdb") & ";"
%>
Joris