We have an old Access 2000 database that we need to pull data from and store it into a text file via a web interface that has to run every 20 minutes. I have spent hours and hours searching for a correct connection string without anything working.
I even used Dreamweaver’s point-and-click solution and was able to get it to connect and pull data with a System DSN on my local machine, but it shows a 500 Internal Server Error when I upload it to the testing server (both the local and the testing server System DSNs have the same name). (For clarification to die-hard programmers, I am a developer and am using Dreamweaver because I have no idea what I’m doing with ASP.)
I created a System DSN on the testing server (win server 2008), but it doesn’t seem to work. I don’t know if it’s something with the VB code I’m writing or an issue with the DSNs. Could I please get some help with this, my deadline for this is tomorrow morning! (If I don’t meet the deadline, major systems in our business will not work!)
Dreamweaver Connection:
Dim MM_LocalDb_STRING
MM_LocalDb_STRING = "dsn=Db;"
Dim Students
Dim Students_cmd
Dim Students_numRows
Set Students_cmd = Server.CreateObject ("ADODB.Command")
Students_cmd.ActiveConnection = MM_LocalDb_STRING
Students_cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM Students"
Students_cmd.Prepared = true
Students = Students_cmd.Execute
Students_numRows = 0
I have also seen various connection strings and have tried them with no success. Please help! (Thank you in advance.)
If you can, try accessing the page locally on the test server. I believe this should give you a more specific error than just the generic 500.
My thought, because this works on your dev machine, is that it’s a permissions error. You should make sure that the IUSR and, I think, LOCAL SERVICE accounts have read/write permissions to the database file.