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Uploading to a remote server/getting pages ready

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spencern

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I've built a small web app using ultra dev and now I want to upload it to my free ASP server; brinkster.com. Currently, all the links are set to work on my local machine and not brinkster same thing for all the DB connections. Is there a simple way to upload all the files and have the links and DB connections changed automatically so they will work on the internet?
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Spencer
 
Hi Spencer,

It depends on the level you have with Brinkster. With Premium levels you can FTP upload - and all links will change as long as you have the site defined within UD. But if you have the General membership (free one) you have to use Brinkster's file upload tool. And you will have to change the links to reflect. If this is the case, you can do a edit and replace for your entire website. For example search for something like c:\website\images\picture.gif and replace with ../images/

But be careful, you want to be as specific as you can to identify the text to replace - otherwise you run the risk of changing a whole ton of links - to only need to change them back to what they really are.

If you have the General membership, I can point you into a direction of a very reasonable host for hobby or personal stuff, giving you the flexibility that paying hosts do (at a huge fraction of the cost). - no I am not affiliated with them at all, I found them - and have a hobby site there as well.
 
Right now I have the general membership at brinkster, so FTP with them is out of the question. I also have WebSamba, but I've never been able to get the FTP system to work. It won't even let me create folders...
So if you know of any other free ASP hosts with FTP, please post again. I'm really wanting to put this thing on the web and see how speeds are for the DB.

Thanks again
Spencer
 
feel free to give me an email. schase02@elp.rr.com
 
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