Howto: Install webmonkey?

michi200 · Post by **michi200** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:12 pm

Hi Together,

I am new here in this forum. I would like install the webmonkey on my web server, so I had unzipped the R12 Version of webmonkey and had read the readme from Martin Warning. My Problem is that I can’t open the default.asp like a normal homepage. I get only the source code from the internet explorer 7. What could be the problem? I didn’t change anything on the dns.asp file, because I don’t understand how to insert the file path to the media monkey DB. Unfortunately I can’t find a description in the readme or in this forum. Does anybody can help me to install the webmonkey?

Many Many thanks!!!

Michael

dsn.asp:

<%
dim dsn
dim Conn
dsn="DBQ=" & Server.Mappath(strDBLocation) & ";Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};"
Set Conn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Conn.Open dsn
%>

Post by **Lowlander** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:33 pm

The database path is set in the settings.asp file, no need to change any other files (ie dns.asp).

What webserver are you using? Are you using IIS?

michi2002 · Post by **michi2002** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:18 pm

Hi Lowlander, thank you for the fast answer! Actually I had thought if you can open your test environment you also can open the webmonkey on your local computer.
Than I have understood that I have to install urgently a web server. My destination is to install webmonkey on a Linux web server. Unfortunately I didn’t found an installation guide.
I only found out, that I have to install monostack from http://www.bitrock.com/products_mono_overview.html which includes apache web server + mono + xsp - but without any success.
Now I get only the source code in the internet browser, like the days before.

Yesterday I have tried this again with apache friends on windows xp but with the same mistake. Do I have forgotten anything to install for using asp?

Thank you very much

Post by **Lowlander** » Mon May 07, 2007 9:03 pm

You need a webserver like IIS that supports the ASP language in which WebMonkey is written. WebMonkey won't run on Apache as Apache doesn't support ASP natively. I don't know if ASP plugins exist for ASP and if they would work. The second problem is that you need support the connection to the database which is only available under Windows (as the database is MS Access).

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Mon May 07, 2007 9:15 pm

Windows 2000 Pro, Windows XP Pro, and any server versions of Windows have IIS ready on the cd, to be installed.
If you're running another version (e.g. Windows XP Home), sometimes you can make some changes so you still can install IIS (but it's usually more trouble than it's worth).

You can also use http://www.apache-asp.org/ together with Apache (with mod_perl) on Windows.

Verdifan · Post by **Verdifan** » Thu May 31, 2007 3:32 am

Hi Lowlander!
Thx for the Webmonkey Script.
So far it seems to run.

http://www.gbs2.de/html/webmonkey/

But clicking for Artist or Title doesn't work - 404.

Any idea!
Thx for your help.

Regards
Georg

Verdifan · Post by **Verdifan** » Thu May 31, 2007 8:50 am

... okay. solved. I mixed up the databases.

trek · Post by **trek** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:31 pm

I am having issues installing webmonkey...Is there anyone who can help walk me through?

Post by **Lowlander** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:04 pm

Just post your issues and I will try to help as much as I can.

trek · Post by **trek** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:12 pm

How do you even get it to work? lol....I uploaded all the files to a folder on my server and when I goto the URL all I get is the Index of the directory.....

Post by **Lowlander** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:54 pm

What webserver are you using? You will need a webserver that supports ASP pages (IIS is best for this as it's a Microsoft technology).

Have you tried the url + default.asp? That might be the issue as webservers need to be told what default document to load (IIS should have default.asp included as default document).

Also check out the settings.asp (with notepad) to make sure all configurations are correct (like the database path).

trek · Post by **trek** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:17 am

I am using lypha.com. I will email them to see if they do support ASP. I do have IIS installed also.

When I do the url + default.asp it just comes up as txt from the file.

And im pretty sure I have the database path set. To make sure what is the code to search for to make sure I am in the right place?

trek · Post by **trek** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:54 am

Well I emailed my server and this is there response "We are not supporting ASP. We have accounts hosted in linux servers."

So....I'm stuck there...any suggestions on a free host that supports ASP?

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:56 am

Lypha.com supports SSH, PHP, MySQL, Perl/CGI, Ruby, FTP, SSL (according to their web home page). That is, .not. ASP.
I'd suggest you to try installing WebMonkey on your own IIS server first.

I have no suggestions for free ASP hosting, except for search results.

trek · Post by **trek** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:28 pm

Steegy wrote:Lypha.com supports SSH, PHP, MySQL, Perl/CGI, Ruby, FTP, SSL (according to their web home page). That is, .not. ASP.
I'd suggest you to try installing WebMonkey on your own IIS server first.

I have no suggestions for free ASP hosting, except for search results.

At the moment I'm trying to figure out the whole IIS thing, but I did find a free ASP hosting site....http://www.somee.com...I setup an account and UL all the files and when I goto the webmonkey dir I get this error

Code: Select all

Server.MapPath() error 'ASP 0172 : 80004005'

Invalid Path

/Webmonkey/Default.asp, line 62

The Path parameter for the MapPath method must be a virtual path. A physical path was used.

I am wondering do I have to have the Music and DB that I want to use on the server?

I got IIS up and running, and setup a Virtual Dir. and all the good stuff....I see the default page but now I just cant figure out how to get it to link to my music on my HDD