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That's okay, the tutorial assumes the site is at the root.

Im getting this error also:

• Error Type:
  Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80004005)
  [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified
  /core/modules/common.asp, line 69

I can't belive so many people have posted this error and you have refused to directly address this issue. Why make a tutorial that's obviously aimed at beginners and not offer to help them set it up.

Your readme.txt was very vague in point 3 also.

This boggles this mind, why even bother if you're not going to help people set up the tutorial to learn something? It's obviously a widespread problem but you have chosen to ignore it and respond to other commments in this thread and pretend that the problem doesn't exist.

1) The DataSource error (which I have responded to numerous times in this thread) is a result of not having the latest MDAC version. I can't control what you install on your machine, therefore I can't solve all problems you may have with this tutorial.

2) This tutorial wasn't designed for absolute beginners (people with no experience at all). It was designed for novice programmers, to demonstrate certain common functionality in most data driven websites.

3) One of the best traits a programmer can have is their ability to be resourceful. The only thing worse than not knowing the answer to something, is not knowing where to find the answer. A quick search on google for "Creating Virtual Directories in IIS" would have returned numerous pages on how to do this. I can't solve all the problems everyone is going to experience with this tutorial. As everyone using this tutorial is of varying skill levels and their machines are setup differently. Some people have absolutely no problem with this tutorial. Others, like yourself, obviously do.

4) Instead of complaining about how bad this tutorial is, why don't you expend some of that energy into actually learning the technology from more than one source, such as other tutorials, books, etc... and less time complaining about a tutorial that obviously was designed for users with a higher skill level than you.

Actually I do have experience in programming. And yes, I did find the answer to creating virtual directories after googling it. And yes I did search on how to create a DNS and I found it, but I think (not much experience in ASP as yet) that I'd have to use the same DNS that you've specified in your code. Because Yes, I did follow the link that you provided on how to set up a DNS.

And no, this wasn't the first place I came to learn ASP. I saw your tut and thought there might be something I could learn or maybe view something from a differnt angle that was presented to me from before, I'm not content to sit with something that's working and not looking farther.

And yes, the latest MDAC is installed.

Anyway, I'll keep trying to get it to work for me, and I really hope I do, passing up the opportunity to learn something is not a habit of mine.

The connectionstring in the tutorial (global.asa file) is not a DNS (Domain Name System).

I think you maybe confusing DNS with DSN (Data Source Name).

And the connectionString in the global.asa file is not a DSN connection, it is a DSN-less connection.

I try answer any and all questions that people post here.

>> EDIT post transferred to new thread...

This doesn't not pertain to this ASP Tutorial, please post your question in a new thread.

oks, thanks!

I would like you to create this tutorial in ASP and ASP.NET

It's already been created, it's in the .NET forum.

Spend excess energy on being polite and curtious. The moderators help us all here and the help I've received from everyone, including users, has been invaluable. If someone is considering being rude, then I suggest you don't post at all. In my opinion.

Please and thank you goes a very long way.

P.S. The ASP.NET tutorial is beyond me at the minute. It won't be in a few months though! And I certainly won't attempt to blame Memnoch for my shortfall in abillity and in ingenuity.
P.P.S. I don't know how to put an agree statement in here I'm afraid.

Click the "Scales" icon in the upper right of the post.

This is what I found for people who got the following error.

Error Type:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80004005)
[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified
/core/modules/common.asp, line 69


Instead of creating a separate directory called 'website' under wwwroot, try copying all the contents of the website folder directly
under wwwroot. Let me know if this helps.

Thanks,
J

Thanks, Jackal. That worked for me.