From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 12:56:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-64-219-30-249.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.30.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676AF37B41A for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:56:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (sageone [192.168.0.5]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g33KuJA40883; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:56:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from admin@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020403145618.0188c8b8@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: admin@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:56:18 -0600 To: Dan Nelson , Peter Brezny From: Server Admin Subject: Re: access database connectivity under mod_frontpage Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020403205126.GC22338@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 02:51 PM 4.3.2002 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: >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 > > mSQL2.0 works too.... .... our website: http://www.sage-one.net/ Best regards, Jack L. Stone Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message