Does WordPress support ASP pages and/or connection to a database?

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    rgg12015 · Member ·

    I’d like to know before signing up. Thanks.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    brookedot · Member ·

    Hi there,

    Here on WordPress.com we do not provide access to the databse or code for security reasons. You may be looking for the free and open source WordPress software found at:
    https://wordpress.org

    This is the software which WordPress.com runs on and uses the LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) stack by default. If you are wanting to make modifications to the WordPress software I’d suggest you download it from WordPress.org and install it onto your own server. Although, I’m not sure without a complete rewrite it would ever work on ASP.net :)

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    steve1790 · Member ·

    To reply to this thread, I had to login.
    I would like to establish the same on my site; so I could enable some users and disable others from continuing into my website.
    In a non-Wordpress site, I have a login that looks to an Access .mdb file that contains usernames and passwords.
    I think RGG’s question is roughly the same as mine – can we set up pages that will look to the .mdb file to authenticate a user; and if so, how do we accomplish this?
    I can’t speak for RGG, but I know I’m not interested in downloading and modifying the WordPress code.

    I run a real estate website. Users can login, then search for homes that fit their criteria. I use a small “login.mdb” for login purposes; and a huge (relatively speaking) .mdb file that contains a catalog of homes for sale. I’ve been feeding these databases for over 15 years to my website that runs on FrontPage2000. The website isn’t broken, but should this scheme ever fail, I’d like to know I could shift over to WordPress and be up and running. I’d much rather know if this is possible beforehand, and know/implement the code beforehand as well; as a backup so to speak.

    Believe it or not, it is very difficult to find out how to integrate websites with databases; even Microsoft Access databases. I understand what RGG wants to know, and I’d like to know as well.

    Does this help at all?

    Perhaps I am off-base assuming what I think RGG want’s to know. Regardless, I think you get an idea of what I’m trying to find out to suit my own objectives. ;-)

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    brookedot · Member ·

    Hi steve1790,

    This is support for WordPress sites hosted by WordPress.com. For security reasons we do not allow FTP or server access to sites hosted on WordPress.com. You could password protect a WordPress.com site by following this guide:
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

    If you want to do something more advanced or run WordPress (which requires PHP and MySQL) on your own servers next to an ASP site you’ll need to use the self-hosted version of WordPress software and get support in the WordPress.org support forums at: http://wordpress.org/support

    To find out more about WordPress.com vs self-hosted WordPress sites see this guide:

    WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

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