PRB: Creating Application with PWS 4.0, Windows 95 and VID

RESOLUTION

Most often this is caused by not having "Execute" permissions selected on the Web project in the Personal Web Manager. "Execute" permissions is required to make a Web Project an "Application."

NOTE: If you are using an existing Web project in Visual InterDev created by FrontPage Publisher, then the execute permissions are not set (Web project is not an application).

Use the following steps to determine if your Web project is an "Application":

1. Start Personal Web Manager (double-click on the PWS icon in the taskbar).
2. Click Advanced.
3. Select the Web project folder (for example, \test).
4. Click the Edit Properties button.
5. In the directory path, the folder name is missing. Append the folder name of the Web project to this directory path.
6. In the Access pane, make sure every check box is selected (Read, Execute, and Scripts). You'll need 'Execute' to make it an application.
7. Click OK, and close the Personal Web Manager.

If you forget to add your folder name of your Web project to the directory path, you'll receive the following error when accessing any page within that Web project: NOTE: By default the Personal Web Manager will not add these subfolders to the directory path of your Web site, but your Web site will be accessible.

Another application could exist in a higher level directory, root for example, if no execute permissions are set in the subfolder, this high level Global.asa will fire instead.

Restarting the Application

Restarting the Personal Web server using the Personal Web Manager will not restart your application to refresh Global.asa. To do so you'll have to open an MS-DOS prompt from the Start button. Clicking Run and type the command. To stop the Personal Web Server go to its subfolder, for example, c:\win95\system\inetsrv and type the following command:

   pws /stop
				

To start type it, type the following command:

   pws /start
				

   Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
   [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access 97 Driver] The Microsoft Jet Database
   engine cannot find the table or query 'tablename'. Make sure it exists
   and that its name is spelled correctly."
				

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        Response.Write(sessItem & " : Session object cannot " & _
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        Response.Write "Array named " & sessItem & "<ol>"
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     End If
   Next
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