I do not use Microsoft Front Page, I use Coffee Cup HTML 2010 for my html editor. My hosting is goDaddy, What GoDaddy is saying is that the code you use in your lesson requires full access, is there a way around this. I can not proceed any further with the lessons since I cant get a basic connection to the database.

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Reply from Richard Rost:

I also use GoDaddy for one of my servers. In fact, the 599CD Theater is hosted on a GoDaddy server (amicron2.com). You must have just gotten a tech rep who doesn't know what he's talking about (happens ALL the time to me... and not just with GoDaddy).

Do you have MICROSOFT hosting or their Linux hosting? With Microsoft hosting, FrontPage will automatically set up the READ/WRITE permissions you need for the folder that contains your database. This is one of the reasons I love FrontPage (now Expression Web).

Even without FP, however, you should still be able to use their file manager to go in and set the permissions for your database folder so that the Internet User account (your server) has access to WRITE to the database folder. Without write access, you won't be able to write information to your database file. Can you READ info from the database and display it on your web page?