Re: Web Wiz Forums in New Subweb, Published with FP2003

From: Russell (rsullivan_at_tastycomputersdotcom_replacedotwith)
Date: 04/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:41:43 GMT

Thanks for the response, Thomas. I don't quite understand your reply to #2.
I want the default page to be default.asp, but FrontPage won't allow me to,
without renaming the extension to .htm, anyway. I'm not sure why. It's
really not that big of a deal, as all my links to the forum from the main
site will be linked to the default.asp page, but there are auto-reply e-mail
elements programmed in the forum subweb that generate links in the e-mails
to the "default" page in the forum, and it won't allow me to change it from
default.htm to default.asp, so that's why I created the default.htm page
with the JavaScript redirect to default.asp. Regarding the cluster size
issue of the .mdb file, I thought that as well, but 100KB is a big
difference, and I renamed the local copy and publish it to the live site,
and the 100KB difference in size remained on the live site, so that's
definitely a concern, if I'm planning on ever having to clean up the
database in Access locally then republish.

Russell
http://tastycomputers.com

"Thomas A. Rowe" <tarowe@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:eb6e4diKEHA.3016@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
**snip**
> #2 If local you are working against a web server, then you need to default
page for the web to be
> default.asp and not default.htm.
>
> #3
> The difference in file size between the two copies of your database, would
be related to the file
> cluster size being different on the server, as compared to your local
machine.
>
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> "Russell" <rsullivan@tastycomputersdotcom_replacedotwith"."> wrote in
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> news:9Qxic.20994$aQ6.1283567@attbi_s51...
> > Hi,
> > I've downloaded and imported the Web Wiz Forum unzipped files and
folders
> > (.asp/Access-based forum software) into a new subweb and published to my
> > live server (Microsoft bCentral.) I have 3 questions for someone who
uses
> > this forum software:
> >
> > 1. The forum subweb site is pretty slow. I realize that I'd get better
> > performance with SQL Server as opposed to Access DB-based, but my host
> > doesn't support it in this package. Since the forum has just been
created
> > and no one is aware of it yet, excessive posts/online users definitely
isn't
> > a current issue. If you want to view it, it's at
> > http://tastycomputers.com/forum/default.asp. My main site is speedy.
Is
> > this slower .asp forum subweb performance normal?
> >
> > 2. My host claims that they support default.asp and/or index.asp as
"start"
> > pages in webs, but I can't get it to work with an .asp extension, so my
> > "home" page for the subweb is default.htm, a page that just has a simple
> > JavaScript page redirect to default.asp. When I've attempted to change
the
> > home page to the .asp page in FrontPage 2003, it wants me to rename the
> > default.asp page to default.htm. Is there something that I'm missing
here?
> >
> > 3. I'm planning to perform daily publishes of this live subweb to a
local
> > hard drive for additional backup security. If I later recalculate
> > hyperlinks in FrontPage on either the live site or the local copy, will
that
> > screw with the .asp-based web in any way, or should I not recalculate
> > hyperlinks? I did notice last evening when I published the live site to
a
> > local location, the online version of the Access database increased in
size
> > from 568K to 667K on the local copy, so that concerned me as well.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> > Russell
> > http://tastycomputers.com
> >
> >
>
>