From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 12:51:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB3537B417 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:51:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g33KpRmG034987; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:51:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g33KpQD1034986; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:51:26 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:51:26 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Peter Brezny Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: access database connectivity under mod_frontpage Message-ID: <20020403205126.GC22338@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error 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 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