Need help regarding my subdomain

[pbanacos]

Hello,

I manage a website that displays a companies daily price on the frontpage. I recently created a mobile subdomain of that site, but when i try to #include the text file from the root directory the values are empty on my subdomain pages. Am I doing anything wrong or do I need a subdomain global.asa that points to root version?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Paul

 

[ChrisHirst]

Am I doing anything wrong or do I need a subdomain global.asa that points to root version?

Absolutely no idea!!


Are you going to help find out by providing some clues? ?

The code you used preferably, and how the site is structured physically

Chris.

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[pbanacos]

Here is the structure:

- I upload and store the daily price in a text file here domain/oilprice/OilPrice.txt
- On my homepage index.asp I have the following entry: <!--#include file="TodayOilPrice.inc"-->
- TodayOilPrice.inc file has this code <%=Session("priceLine")%>
- The global.asa file in the root uses the following code to pull the Price:

<script language="vbscript" runat="server">
sub Session_OnStart
Const Filename = "\oilprice\oilPrices.txt"
Dim FSO
set FSO = server.createObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' Map the logical path to the physical system path
Dim Filepath, price, priceLine, dateLine
Filepath = Server.MapPath(".") & Filename

if FSO.FileExists(Filepath) Then
' Get a handle to the file
Dim file
set file = FSO.GetFile(Filepath)
Dim TextStream
Set TextStream = file.OpenAsTextStream(1, -2)

' Read the file line by line
Do While Not TextStream.AtEndOfStream
Dim sLine
sLine = TextStream.readline
if InStr(1,UCase(sLine),Trim("DATE"))>0 Then
Session("dateLine")=Trim(sLine)
End if
if InStr(1,UCase(sLine),Trim("PRICE"))>0 Then
Session("priceLine")=Trim(sLine)
dim apst1, apst2
apst1 = InStr(1, sLine, "$") ' return position of first '
apst2 = InStr(apst1+1, sLine, "per") ' return position of second '
price = Mid(sLine,apst1+1,(apst2 - apst1)-1)
Session("price")=Trim(price)
End if
Loop
Set TextStream = nothing
End if
end sub
</script>

This works fine for

http://www.domain.net

On my subdomain 'mobile.domain.net' I cant figure out how to pull the same value and all I get is null.

Does this help?

Thanks,
Paul

 

[ChrisHirst]

It gets a bit further. As you surmised global.asa refers to the running application in the current session which is host name specific. As an application running on a subdomain is on a different hostname the root domain global.asa has not been executed so the session variables will not exist.

In this I have to assume that the 'mobile' subdomain is not mapped to the same physical drive location and files as the site root and the 'www' subdomains are , which is why I asked about the physical structure of the sites on the server drives.



Chris.

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