I have a website that somebody did for me some time ago (cannot get hold of them now). On the website it has a comments page that people can leave comments about the services etc. The website is html based with ASP files.

 

I downloaded thefiles from my website to my pc, but on my pc the comments page is now completly blank, the folder i downloaded has a text file with the comments on them but these comments are not shown on the website (when it is on my pc). There are no other files on the database to download (databases etc)

 

My question is i have made some basic changes to the home page (text), i want to be sure that it will work ok on the web when i upload it, how can i read the asp files to see how they are transferring the the data from the text files to my website or is there a database behind the scenes that is doing the transfer.

 

i am a complete newby at this any help or steer will be appreciated.

 

regards

 

tony

I downloaded thefiles from my website to my pc, but on my pc the comments page is now completly blank, the folder i downloaded has a text file with the comments on them but these comments are not shown on the website (when it is on my pc). There are no other files on the database to download (databases etc)

I doubt whether the database would be available from the folder on the server where your site is held. In my experience, in order to access the database you need to login to your cPanel and use a tool such as phpmyadmin to gain access. This would explain why the page is blank on your local server.

Are you running ASP on your computer?

Are you running ASP on your computer?

lol - that's the other bit of advice I should have offered Thanks Rob

A classic D'oh! moment.