Notes: . Run Windows XP Professional without using "Simple file sharing". To change this go to My Computer/Tools/Folder Options/View and turn off simple file sharing. (Not sure that this is still necessary). . Don't use FrontPage to edit the files; use Notepad or Wordpad instead. Do editing directly in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WWUN. FrontPage 2002 might work better or FrontPage 2000 might work OK now that simple file sharing is off. Global.asa doesn't seem to be needed nor are the entries made there by FrontPage. . To bring up the web pages on a new machine, run Add/Remove Programs from the control panel, select Add/Remove Windows Components and turn on Internet Information Services (IIS). Also check that asp extensions are supported (this is under Add Windows Features-WWWServices/Applications Development Features\ASP) . Then move the web directory, WWUN, into c:\Inetpub\wwwroot. For debugging, go to Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services/IIS Manager/ASP/Debugging Properties and set Send Errors to Browser to True. If you get an error message like "provider not found" for Microsoft.Ace.OLEDB.12.0, open IIS Manager again and under Application Pools/DefaultAppPool/Advanced Settings, set Enable 32-bit Applications to True. . For Windows Vista (Business edition) it's necessary to start the Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) and the World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC). Go to Control Panel/ Administrative Tools/Services and set these up to start automatically. Also open Control Panel/Administrative Tools/IIS Manager/Authentication and set Anonymous Authentication to "Enabled" and under Actions, select Edit and select "Application pool identity". Otherwise you're likely to get a Microsoft JET Database Engine error '80004005' indicating that the engine doesn't have access to TMP or TEMP. . To make changes to the database: . If the database has been accessed, use Settings/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services/IIS Admin to stop IIS or reboot machine. . Turn off read-only access on the database (the database is found at c:\inetpub\ wwwroot\wwun.net\db\wwun.mdb). . If you compact the database or create a new database, check properties/Security and add "Administrators" and give them "Full control". If there isn't a security tab, simple file sharing is on (see above). . Restore read-only access. . Reboot machine to restart IIS if it was stopped. . To use a new database: . Use Setting/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Data Sources (ODBC) and add new database under System DSN. Use Microsoft Access Driver, give a DSN name to database, description and point to it's location. Note: for Windows 7 64-bit, had to do the following: •open Control Panel •Go into Administrative Tools •right click on Data Sources (ODBC) •click on Properties •on the shortcut tab, change the 'Target' to %windir%\syswow64\odbcad32.exe and the 'Start in' to %windir%\syswow64 •Apply, and click OK as the distributed ODBC control panel doesn't recognize MS Access drivers. . To change the location of the alpha4 tables: . In Access, select tables and right-click in a blank area. . Choose Link Tables, browse to the path of the alpha4 tables, look for files of type dBaseIV and select the table to link. . Change the name of the linked tables (delete the old ones) to realmerged, etc. . Note: if you can't link the tables it may be because there are old versions of albums.inf, etc, which point to the wrong locations of the index files. I don't think the .inf files are necessary (for Access, anyway). . To run Alpha4 in a virtual machine: . Use the dos command "net use z: \\tsclient\c" so that you can access the c drive from within Alpha4, i.e., you can then open the databases by referencing z:\alpha4\stamps\wwun etc. . To rebuild database from alpha4: . Run the macro macDeleteFromTables. This will delete all records in ScottWwun, MichelWwun, WwunTopicals, SubTopics, Topics, Countries, EnglishCountries, GermanCountries and Albums in that order. . Run the macro macTransferFromAlpha4. This will run the queries qryAppendAlbums, qryAppendCountries, qryAppendTopics, qryAppendSubTopics, qryAppendWwunTopicals, qryAppendScottWwun, qryAppendMichelWwun, qryAppendEnglishCountries1, qryAppendEnglishCountries2, qryAppendGermanCountries1 and qryAppendGermanCountries2 in that order. The macro will also delete all the records in WwunTopicals, Countries and Albums. Don't worry about messages saying not all records could be added (when building the country names). . Run Database Tools-Encode/Decode Database to compact the database to a new file then rename the new file to WWUN. . Don't run qryBuildScottWwun or qryBuildMichelWwun. If you do, delete all the records, go to table definitions for ScottWwun & MichelWwun and change the data type for the date to "text". Then run qryAppendScottWwun and run qryAppendMichelWwun. . Note: if you don't get any records appended to WwunTopicals, it's probably because the append queries were run in the wrong order. . To test bring up Explorer and go to: http://ingram-OS32/wwun.net/index.html. Don't try running from a file off of c:\Inetpub. . Future investigations: . There's a problem with hitting the back button when searching for a topic with no subtopics (IYET, for example) when SubTopic_skip.asp is used. Topics.asp disables this feature for now. . It might be better to close the record set and do a new search with each new page. It seems to work well now, including jumping back to a previous search using 'history' and bookmarks, however, it may be that the record sets will hang around indefinitely taking up memory. . Need to check all the records and fix up things like 'imp pair', English showing on the Michel searches, etc. . Use a different date format on Michel database like "yy-mmm-dd"? . Is the website secure? Directory display seems to be disabled. Is the database hidden well enough? . The contents of the alpha4 records should be cleaned up before releasing it. I.e. remove cost. . It would be nice to have a general 'alias' field for the Michel descriptions to handle prefixes on Michel numbers and blocks. May be useful for Scott descriptions also. . Any changes made to the alpha4 database need to be migrated to WwunTopicals in Microsoft Access. . Eventually need to drop alpha4 and work in Access exclusively. . Figure out why javascript:history.go('WWUN') doesn't work.