Introduction: Getting Started
Microsoft dbWeb is a utility that helps you quickly publish information from your database on your Web site. Using Microsoft dbWeb, you can create a query page, several types of results pages, and automatic links between them.
This utility has two main components—the dbWeb Service and the dbWeb Administrator—that use ODBC to connect to your database files. The dbWeb service runs in the background. The dbWeb administrator helps you create schemas that define your Web pages. You can learn more about the features of the dbWeb Administrator by working through the three tutorials described in this document.
Starting the dbWeb ServiceBefore you start using the dbWeb Administrator and working through the tutorials, you need to start the dbWeb service and verify the data source names (DSNs) for the databases in the ODBC Administrator.
To start the dbWeb Service
1. In the Control Panel, select Services.
2. In the Services dialog box, select dbWeb Service, and click the Start button.
3. Click Close.
Microsoft dbWeb provides you with two sample Microsoft Access databases, dbnwind and dbPubs, and the dbWebSchema database to store your schemas. During installation, Microsoft dbWeb provides you with system data source names (DSNs) for each database, but you need to verify that the system DSNs specify the appropriate databases.
To verify the system DSNs
1. From the ODBC program group, select ODBC Administrator.
2. In the Data Sources dialog box, click the System DSN button.
3. In the System Data Sources dialog box, select dbnwind, and then click the Set Up button.
4. In the dialog box, verify that the database is specified in the database area.
Note: If a database is not specified, click the Select button and locate the sample databases. Typically, the sample databases are located in inetsvr\dbweb\samples, but the location depends on the directories specified during installation.
5. Click OK.
6. Verify the DSN for each dbWeb database: dbpubs, dbwind, and dbwebschema.
7. Click Close in the System Data Sources dialog box and the Data Sources dialog box.
After you have started the dbWeb service and verified the databases for the DSNs, you can work through the three tutorials provided in this document.