DirList Demo

This page describes the DirList demo environment.

Data is reset once every day, so don't put anything important into the demo database.

Web-based demo

• The search page will let you search the DirList index on this server
  • Note that this page can be customized to whatever is needed; it's a HTML file. The one on this server is a very simple example
  • Try searching for "ste" or "Steven" to get my record
• Anyone can edit the data in this server's DirList index (see below), so please do not count on the accuracy of the search results
• Because anyone can edit the data, junk data will likely exist. Please do not take offense at whatever the Internet at large put into there

Access and ODBC-based demo

To try out DirList, follow these instructions:

• Download the DirList2ODBC package and install both the ODBC driver and the Access database as an Administrative user
  • If there ever is a future version, it will let you set up ODBC as a regular, restricted user instead of requiring administrative access. It will also use standard MSI installer instead of my old Win16 CatSetup installer
• Set up a DSN named "users" (without the quotes) with the following settings:
  • Data Source Name: users
  • Index: users
  • Default Login: Admin
    • Not "Administrator"
  • Default Password: admin
  • Server: www.moonlightdesign.org
  • Port: 80
  • Path: /cgi-bin/dirlist2.cgi
  • Use CHAR for all text-based data: Checked
  • Length of CHAR data: 255
• Open and use the Access database in c:\dirlist2