putting it on the web

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I'm not an IT guy. I created a simple DB. How do I put it on the web?

I would like for people to just be able to access the records. I envision it
working like an online library catalog.

What do I need to do to make my DB accessible from my webpage. Hardware?
Software?
 
What 'web' technologies are you familar with.
What programming experience do you have?
Are you running your own Web Server or are you working through an Internet
Service Provider (ISP).
If you have an ISP, you need to know if they support MS Access as a
datasouce. Also you may or may not have sufficient permissions to do the
required updates and/or upload the required code files to make things work.

If really simple stuff, I would 'publish' your data as a set of XML files,
then use them as a source for your web code.

In any case, MS Access CAN act as a data source, but none of the forms,
reports, etc. are easy to expose as web pages. The 'web pages' access does
build require the host computer to have msAccess installed.


Ed Warren.
 
Hi Ed,
The 'web pages' access does build require the host computer to have
msAccess installed.
Click to expand...

Not exactly true. Data access pages (DAP's) created with Access 2000 require
all users to have a license for Office 2000. Each user needed to have a copy
of the Office Web Components DLL library (OWC9.dll), which could not be
freely distributed. I believe this license requirement was removed with
Office 2002. However, all users must still have a copy of Internet Explorer
installed, as any other browser simply will not work.

Furthermore, DAP's are being deprecated in the next version of Access due
out. It's about time that that happened.


Tom

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