ASP-Nuke is a free webportal design with ASP. It allows you to create quickly your own webportal without any programming skills.
A webportal is a set of tools which give you all the needed functionnalities to have a community and gives information about a specific topic (association, hobby, ...).
So you can post news, propose files to download, manage a site's directory, do polls...
Your visitors can interact with you by commenting news, post messages in the forum section, submit links...
Well, you've got the tools, go ahead and be a webmaster !
ASP-Nuke can only run under an ASP (Active Server Pages) executing webserver. There are some supported programming languages (like VBScript or JavaScript).
Like its principal challenger, PHP (www.php.net), ASP allows you to make dynamical pages, that gives you much more flexibility and power than pure HTML.
You can also connect your website to a database to extract information, like displaying the last 5 news or anything else, without rewriting your HTML code. ASP does it itself
ASP is a Microsoft's technology, and you will find more information on the official website.
To build your own webportal, first you must download the last ASP-Nuke version in the downloads section.
After dezipping the archive, read the file readme_en.htm to know how to install it on your webserver.
4. Problem : after the installation, I got an error message.
You have followed the installation's explanation, but you've got an error message when you try to browse your site.
Your host may not support the FileSystemObject. The bug is reported, and the next version will give another possibility to install APS-Nuke.
5. I want a new theme on my website, how to do this ?
You only have to download the theme and copy it into the /themes directory (in your website's root).
Then, you can choose it by selecting it in your account section. The default theme used when people come to your site is in the /themes/default/ directory.
6. I have configured the website, but the forum doesn't work.
The forum is entirely empty, and you can't post topics...
You must use the admin account, and then click on the Console [ON] in the forum to have the admin functionnalities.
click on Console [OFF] to get out of the console.
You wil have the possibilty to delete or validate/unvalidate posts and topics with this account..
7. How do I protect my databases folder from intruding access ?
Most of the webhosts gives you a secure folder (Efrance has basedonnee for instance), or a DSN access for your database.
So, you must put databases into the secure folder (or use DSN connection) and modify the /includes/database-inc.asp to use it.
For people who hosts their own webserver, it's even easier. In the db folder properties (in the IIS management console), there is a security section. You can then restrict acces to authentied people, or only to a determined IP range (second section).
Another solution, which is not the best one but may save your site, is to change the name of your database directory (don't forget to change the database-inc.asp file).
If you have any questions, mail me ! Don't underestimate this warning, you can lost your website (database) by neglicting this protection ! !
8. I got an error message during the database connection.
You've got an error message like :
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005' [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]General error Unable to open registry key 'Temporary (volatile) Jet DSN for process 0x468 Thread 0x460 DBC 0x221643c Jet'.
or
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005' [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Operation must use an updateable query.
In the first case, you may have a bad database path. Take a look at it ! (for example, add Response.Write sConnString in the file /includes/database-inc.asp after line 10)
In the second case, your database folder doesn't have the write rights. This folder (/db/ by default) must have the read/write rights. Ask your host if you don't know how to do.