Hi Brian, Thanks for the reply.
I have to research with my web hosting provider but from what you say, it seems like the best course is to host my website locally on my own machine (ouch!). I'm putting a call in now to my web host provider. Thanks. Ed. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Hancock Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 1:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Web query connection to DP. Hi Ed, I have my DataPerfect applications hosted at an independent web hosting company... However you have to be able to get DataPerfect to be executed via the HTTP server... If the web host uses Apache then it works fine, but of course if it is on Linux, you need the web hoster to install a DOS Emulator such as DOSEMU... I have never been able to install it directly in my own space, but rather have had to get the web oster to install it. If you have an Apache webserver on Windows it works well, and this would be my recommended choice except that it is rare to find this configuration since Windows servers come with IIS. ... if it is Miscrosoft IIS, unless you can get them to agree to execution of console applications, a registry setting which they will probably not know much about then, it will not work... You need to upload the application into into your account space on the web hoster's server,... You will need to know the paths to the various components so that your scripts can find the database, and the DP executable... Ideally you should keep the DP application away from the public HTML part of the site, including the scripts folders, otherwise there is a risk of someone could directly access the files, as that could make your day unpleasant. Did you take a look at the tutorial http://www.brileigh.com/dpweb/tutorial/ Brian -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Marfil, MAST UNITED Sent: Tuesday, 11 August 2009 9:39 AM To: 'Dataperfect Users Discussion Group' Subject: [Dataperf] Web query connection to DP. This is something Brian touched on sometime ago and I've been trying to work on it off and on, but thus far have been frustrated. I'm trying to have a user populate a data field (ticket number) on a web page, then send it to a DP database on my local machine where specific data attached to that ticket number will be sent back to the user. My website hosting is outsourced and not on my local machine. Is this possible or does the web hosting have to be on the same local machine or network as the DP database? As always, this group's guidance is much appreciated. Ed. _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
