Setting Up an Access Database for Your Web Site
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Last Updated:
July 15, 2008 1:58 PM
Our Windows hosting accounts allow you to set up Access database support. Using the Hosting Control Center, you can automatically create an "access_db" directory where you can upload your access database files.
To Set up an Access Database for Your Web Site
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, select Hosting.
- Next to the hosting account you want to modify, click Manage Account.
- In the Databases section of the Hosting Control Center, click the Access icon.
- Click Enable Access Support. This creates a private directory in your hosting directory called "access_db." This directory will already have the appropriate database permissions set.
Once you enable Access database support by creating this directory, upload your Access database file to the "access_db" directory. The permissions on this directory allow anonymous Web users to read and write to the Access database through your scripts, but they cannot download your database.
NOTE: Your Access database file will generally have an ".mdb" file extension.
