Hello

Shared web hosting!
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This is why I don’t have control of my hosting account.
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Thank You
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Chipped

carehart wrote:
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> This really isn't a CF problem. This is a problem either of your not having
> been given fundamental information from your host ("how do I setup a database
> for use by CF?"). You've got to go to them for this information. We can't help
> you here (unless a reader happens to be a fellow user of GoDaddy's CF hosting
> services.)
>

I have GoDaddy's CF hosting for my personal vanity site. I beleive you
can use their administration web application to configure your DSN
connections, but their site is not responding at the moment for me to check.

I'm guessing that you're using shared hosting, which means you share the server with many other sites. As such, you will not have access to the CF Admin, and that's why I asked "did you (or someone at GoDaddy) define a datasource in the CF administrator to point to that database".

This really isn't a CF problem. This is a problem either of your not having been given fundamental information from your host ("how do I setup a database for use by CF?"). You've got to go to them for this information. We can't help you here (unless a reader happens to be a fellow user of GoDaddy's CF hosting services.)

If you can't get help from them, it may be in your interest to move to a host that does support CF more clearly and effectively. I have a link to dozens of CF hosting companies here: http://www.cf411.com/#cfhost

Chipped, you haven't clarified: did you move the database to the remote server? and did you (or someone at GoDaddy) define a datasource in the CF administrator to point to that database? Those are steps you would have done on your own local server. You simply need to have them do it on the remote one now.

There are plenty of other cautions that could be offered: you really ought not be using Access for a production application, though many do. You really ought to put the file into a location on the remote server that is not web-accessible, so that no one can "just download it" if they could figure out the URL to point to it.

But to answer your main concerns, I hope the info above helps.