I'm attempting to create a new site within the wwwroot folder. When I define the new site, it says it's "in the root folder of *** and may cause sync problems" etc. When I click yes button the site is created and all the folders on the left are colored red. I attempt to do the simplest action like an insert record form and I get a "MM_Connection failed error. What am I doing wrong? PLEASE HELP! I have tried deleting everything and reinstalling the IIS (WinXP) and even going back to past restore dates. I can't find a thing about "red folders" in DWUD help or what they mean. Can someone please shed some light on this problem?
Thank you so much!

Here is the error I'm getting:

Error Type:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80004005)
[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver's SQLSetConnectAttr failed
/Micro/TMPtavpw2udi.asp, line 88

Do you have another site whose root folder is the wwwroot folder??? This could be the greif!

This is how i structure my development site.

i have a folder c:/websites in this i have my individual folders for sites , (c:/websites/mysite)

I then simply publish a virtual directory in IIS.

the site root wont conflict with anyhting then.

Cheers
Leed

PS Ive NEVER seen red folders in UD, !!!! but i want to...

Cheers
Leed

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Yes, actually. I had the old site I was working on with it's pages located right in the wwwroot folder and everything was working great. I added another file to house the new site and things went haywire. I cannot get the inetpub/wwwroot to work at all now. I even tried deleting everything, reinstalling IIS and when that didn't work I reset the entire computer to a system restore point from a week ago. Still red file folders (I can send you a screenshot). How can I restore the integrity? UD seems to have so many bugs (1 hour of page development and 4 hours of de-bugging per page),nothing ever works the first time. I'm hoping that the new version is more stable should I try reinstalling UD? Does the error look familiar?
Thanks Leed,
Bill Kurn

Hi Bill,

What do you mean when you say you created a
new file to house a new website? Do you mean a folder?

Also, how is the wwwroot not functioning?

test it..

open up iis console...

does it shoe you an explorer style view of the contents of the wwwroot fode?

i hope so....<img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

create an asp page default.asp and ensure that the properties of the default website include default.asp as a default document (documents tab) and the server is running(right click the default website in iis then you can start or stop it). now open a browser at...yourcomputername and you should see your default page....
if you do the wwwroot is functioning.

after all its just a folder that IIS points to.

if this works then create your site elsewhere

i.e. c:/websites/mysite

and publish a virtual directory in the IIS consolt that points to the above [c:/websites/mysite] folder. then this will be available in your browser at yourcomputername/mysite

if this isn't helping then please do send me a screenshot,...

Cheers
LEED



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