Is it possible?

They have: 5,633 posts

Joined: Jan 1970

This may be an easy one for a real webmaster. But,the company that I work for has a website hosted by a commercial server. We also have a database on our own intranet. We would like to have customers access some of the database through the website. Can this be done or do we have to load our database to remote server? One more problem the Database is on a Unix server.
Thanks in advance or your comments or suggestions.
I am not the Webmaster or the database programmer but a solution would score me some huge points.
Skippy11

He has: 36 posts

Joined: Nov 2003

Well I'm no expert, but wouldn't allowing access by anyone to your intranet from the internet pose a security risk??
I have a friend who works with intranets a ton, I can ask him about this tonight, I'm kinda curious now too =)

Always FREE To Post Your Projects On Our Freelance Sites:
Freelance Programming | Have Host's Compete For Your Business

He has: 183 posts

Joined: Nov 2003

Hi, the best thing to do would be to create a new database only with the data you want the user online to have and to use. Then upload this, with your connect string (Which i'm having problems with so if any one can help?) then your away.

What website is it? and what will the users see and have to use?

druagord's picture

He has: 335 posts

Joined: May 2003

if you have a static ip adress you can connect to your db server from the internet or from any webserver if you configure the database permision and your firewall properly. If your website is done with security in mind there shouldn't be any probleme.

IF , ELSE , WHILE isn't that what life is all about

Want to join the discussion? Create an account or log in if you already have one. Joining is fast, free and painless! We’ll even whisk you back here when you’ve finished.