ACC97: Server and Browser Requirements for Publish to Web Wizard

• Microsoft Access 97

SUMMARY

Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

Microsoft Access 97 provides features that enable you to publish data from your database as Web pages. You can create both static and dynamic Web pages; however, each type of Web page may have different requirements for the server that stores the page and the browser that views it. This article summarizes those requirements.

MORE INFORMATION

When you click Save As HTML on the File menu in Microsoft Access 97, you start the "Publish to the Web" Wizard, which helps you publish Web pages in three different formats: Static HTML, Dynamic HTX/IDC (Internet Database Connector), and Dynamic ASP (Microsoft Active Server Pages). Each format uses a different technology in the Web pages you create, and each technology may have specific requirements for your Web server and browser software.

The following table summarizes the requirements for each Web page format:

                 Specific   Specific
 File Types       Browser?   Server?   Details
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Static HTML      No         No        Static data; supported by all
 (*.htm,*.html)                        Web server and browser software

 HTX/IDC          No         Yes       Dynamic data; requires one of the
 (*.idc, *.htx)                        following on the server: Microsoft
                                       Internet Information Server (IIS),
                                       version 1.x with Internet Database
                                       Connector add-in; IIS version 2.0 or
                                       later; Active Server on Windows NT
                                       Server, version 4.0; Microsoft
                                       Personal Web Server on Windows 95;
                                       or Microsoft Peer Web Services on
                                       Windows NT Workstation version 4.0

 ASP (*.asp)      Yes*       Yes       Dynamic data; requires one of the
                                       following on the server: Microsoft
                                       IIS, version 3.0 or later on Windows
                                       NT Server, version 4.0; Microsoft
                                       Personal Web Server on Windows 95
                                       with Active Server; or Microsoft
                                       Peer Web Services with Active Server
                                       on Windows NT Workstation, version
                                       4.0

 * If you create ASP files based on a form in a Microsoft Access database,
   you must browse the form using Microsoft Internet Explorer, version 3.0
   or later with the HTML Layout ActiveX control; you can browse other
   Microsoft Access database objects in ASP file format using any Web
   browser. 

REFERENCES

For more information about creating Web pages for your database, search the Help Index for "Publish to the Web Wizard," or ask the Microsoft Access 97 Office Assistant.

Keywords          : kbinterop kbsetup IntPubWiz EvnSysReq IntAsp 
Version           : 97
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo 

Last Reviewed: April 14, 1999