ASP page path not found error.... urgent help please...

[aspnewbee]

Hi All... I created an upload page... this is the page that processes the UPLOAD function... when I try to upload I'm getting a

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A004C)
Path not found/admin/conferences/outputFile_testing.asp, line 67

HERE IS MY CODE:

RequestBin = Request.BinaryRead(byteCount)
Dim UploadRequest
Set UploadRequest = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")

BuildUploadRequest  RequestBin

authUsername = UploadRequest.Item("authUsername").Item("Value")
docName = UploadRequest.Item("docName").Item("Value")
contentType = UploadRequest.Item("blob").Item("ContentType")
filepathname = UploadRequest.Item("blob").Item("FileName")
filename = Right(filepathname,Len(filepathname)-InstrRev(filepathname,"\"))
value = UploadRequest.Item("blob").Item("Value")

'Create FileSytemObject Component
 Set ScriptObject = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
'Create and Write to a File
 pathEnd = Len(Server.mappath(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")))-14
 Set MyFile = ScriptObject.CreateTextFile(Left(Server.mappath(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")),pathEnd)&"../conferences/upload/"&filename)
 
 For i = 1 to LenB(value)
	MyFile.Write chr(AscB(MidB(value,i,1)))
 Next
 
 MyFile.Close

Line 67 is

Set MyFile = ScriptObject.CreateTextFile(Left(Server.mappath(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")),pathEnd)&"../conferences/upload/"&filename)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all in advance.

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[ufobaby]

try directly uisng the following stmt

Left(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_TRANSLATED"), inStrRev(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_TRANSLATED"), "\")) & <<actual file name>>

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[aspnewbee]

Hi... I can't use the actual filename as the file that is being uploaded is unknown... this page has a file uploading feature... people can upload any file they want... so can't really specify which file is being uploaded... any help?

Thanks...
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[tsuji]

Hello aspnewbee,

How does the engine determine the "../" part of the path?

regards - tsuji

 

[aspnewbee]

I specify the path like this:

pathEnd = Len(Server.mappath(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")))-14
 Set MyFile = ScriptObject.CreateTextFile(Left(Server.mappath(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")),pathEnd)&"../conferences/upload/"&filename)

If you want to look at more code.. please look up... I posted some of it... otherwise I can also post it again... Thanks a lot...

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[tsuji]

aspnewbee,

On the face of it, your path eventually becomes something like "c:/abc/def/ghi/[red]../conferences/upload/uvw.xyz[/red]". That does not look like a very promising path for fso to handle. In that string, ".." would have lost its conventional meaning. That's why my note above. Response.write that evaluated path see the result.

- tsuji

 

[aspnewbee]

Hi tsuji... thank you for the help... I tried to give it a physical path... "c:\abc\upload\&filename" and it still doesn't work. So I took out the part which is actually "Creating and Writing to a File" and it works fine... only problem is the physical file is not getting uploaded. I hope I'm clear in my explaination. This is the part that is actually creating and sending the file to the folder... so is there any other way that I can get the file written to the path other than the way I'm using it below. Please let me know.

'Create and Write to a File
 pathEnd = Len(Server.mappath(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")))-14
 Set MyFile = ScriptObject.CreateTextFile(Left(Server.mappath(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")),pathEnd)&"c:\inetpub\[URL unfurl="true"]wwwroot\conferences\upload\"&filename)[/URL]
 
 For i = 1 to LenB(value)
	MyFile.Write chr(AscB(MidB(value,i,1)))
 Next
 
 MyFile.Close
 Response.Write pathEnd

Thanks
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[tsuji]

aspnewbee,

I can only guess. Suppose your
[tt]Left(Server.mappath(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")),pathEnd)[/tt]
gives you something like
[tt]"c:\inetpub\wwwroot"[/tt]
Then the parameter passed to createtextfile method might be something like
[tt]Left(Server.mappath(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")),pathEnd) & "\conferences\upload\" & filename[/tt]
Suppose filename is given by:
filename="abc.def"
then the parameter would be a string read as:
[tt]"c:\inetpub\wwwroot\conferences\upload\abc.def"[/tt]
a good enough path format for createtextfile() method.

In any case, that is the idea. Hope not bothering you with elementary stuff.

- tsuji

 

[aspnewbee]

Thanks tsuji... you were not at all bothering with any elementary stuff infact I'm greatful to you for your patience... I tried all the possibilities and nothing worked... so I was thinking I have my basics wrong... anyways.. even when put the path like "\conferences\upload\" & filename... it doesn't work... so thats why I posted my code here... I donno what I'm doing wrong. Anyways thanks for all the help and patience.

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[tsuji]

aspnewbee,

>Set MyFile = ScriptObject.CreateTextFile(Left(Server.mappath(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")),pathEnd)&"c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\conferences\upload\"&filename)

Can you response.write this?
response.write Left(Server.mappath(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")),pathEnd)

What does the screen show you?

And the part
c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\conferences\upload

definitely would not be ok. But look at the first part first and I think you'll get the problem clear up.

- tsuji
- tsuji

 

[aspnewbee]

Hi tsuji...

this is the path i get when i do a response.write

c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\admin\conferences\outputFi

which is wierd... coz the path should be something like...

c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\admin\conferences\upload\and

then whatever file was uploaded...

any ideas...

thanks..
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[aspnewbee]

oh BTW the outputFi... I think its getting it from the name of the asp page... (where this code exists). I named the file outputFile.asp... so its taking the first few letters from it.

Thanks again
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[aspnewbee]

Hi tsuji...

Thanks a million man... I figured it out... for some reason.. after the path I put put -14 and it was not cutting the whole thing... (outputFile.asp) so I had to put more than 14 to fix the path... it works fine now... but I'm still surprised that its taking more than 14 letters... (outputfile.asp = 14) but for some reason it needs 22... oh well as long as it works... thanks again for all the help...

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[tsuji]

aspnewbee,

What is the magic needing 20 to accomplish what 14 can do? Probably, those are the control characters after the path in request.querystring or alike.

Glad you sort it out.

- tsuji