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

From: Thomas A. Rowe (tarowe_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 14:58:38 -0400

Russell,

#2 are you working with IIS locally?

Whenever I download an Access database and prior to re-uploading I always do a compact and repair
first. General rule once your forum is active, you should never download and then re-upload the
database unless you first shut down the forum so that no new post are made. 

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"Russell" <rsullivan@tastycomputersdotcom_replacedotwith"."> wrote in message
news:Hxyic.21144$IW1.1079976@attbi_s52...
> Thanks for the response, Thomas.  I don't quite understand your reply to #2.
> I want the default page to be default.asp, but FrontPage won't allow me to,
> without renaming the extension to .htm, anyway.  I'm not sure why.  It's
> really not that big of a deal, as all my links to the forum from the main
> site will be linked to the default.asp page, but there are auto-reply e-mail
> elements programmed in the forum subweb that generate links in the e-mails
> to the "default" page in the forum, and it won't allow me to change it from
> default.htm to default.asp, so that's why I created the default.htm page
> with the JavaScript redirect to default.asp.  Regarding the cluster size
> issue of the .mdb file, I thought that as well, but 100KB is a big
> difference, and I renamed the local copy and publish it to the live site,
> and the 100KB difference in size remained on the live site, so that's
> definitely a concern, if I'm planning on ever having to clean up the
> database in Access locally then republish.
>
> Russell
> http://tastycomputers.com
>
> "Thomas A. Rowe" <tarowe@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:eb6e4diKEHA.3016@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> **snip**
> > #2 If local you are working against a web server, then you need to default
> page for the web to be
> > default.asp and not default.htm.
> >
> > #3
> > The difference in file size between the two copies of your database, would
> be related to the file
> > cluster size being different on the server, as compared to your local
> machine.
> >
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> >
> > "Russell" <rsullivan@tastycomputersdotcom_replacedotwith"."> wrote in
> message
> > news:9Qxic.20994$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
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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