Hi all, put a similar post in WYSIWYG but I think I might get more luck in here. As part of my learning I've created some ASP pagfes in Dreamweaver and tied them to an Access database so I can display my photos and the user can move through them one at a time. I just created a simple html page with a text link to the ASP page. When I run it through localhost the index page shows but when I click on the link I get the "page unavailable" error. i can run the ASP directly through localhost and view my imagesokay. Is there something I'm missing, like a brain, or is my localhost acting the fool? is there some special code I have to use to bring the ASP page up?

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the error must be in your link.

Thanks Chris, I was using the conventional <ahref....> link and wondered if I needed to use something else. i suspect the problem lies with my files in LocalHost. I prefer to do all my testing live and have far less trouble that way. Unfortunately until i sort out an ASP host I have to do it locally.

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I guess as you mention "localhost" you have IIS running on your dev machine.

are your links absolute, document relative or root relative?

I can't find the emoticon for "scratches head" although you raise an interesting point. I noticed that the index page path in browser window was C;\Inetpub.... whereas the path for the "nonpage" that came up was C:\page name even though I did the links in Dreamweaver on the local version and "sent" them up to the IIS server. Curious eh?

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check your links are not simply to the filing system UNCs (href="file:///c:...." )

to have the pages served through the ASP interpreter they should look like http://localhost/pagename.asp

Thanks Chris, will give it a go and see what appertains.

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