Server.CreateObject Failed 2

[theocraticmind]

i would love some help with this problem. here is the code involved:

http://members.rogers.com/aron.jones/txt/admin.txt

the error is this:
[tt]
Server object error 'ASP 0177 : 800a003e'

Server.CreateObject Failed

/church site/admin.asp, line 44

00000000
[/tt]
line 44, is content = objFile.readall

thanks again guys...you have helped me many times, even through my ignorance.

 

[Dynapen]

Can you post the entire code. It would really help to know where you are creating everyting like the objFile object....


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[theocraticmind]

i have posted the entire code. check out that link... it's a text file with all the code in it.

 

[codestorm]

I would hazard a guess the line above isn't really working - that the file path is incorrect, or pointing to an empty file. codestorm
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[theocraticmind]

ok, i know for a face that that is not the case... well, maybe. see the file name for the fiel is given like this:

admin.asp?what=youth-fun_stuff

then:

filename = request.querystring(&quot;what&quot & &quot;.asp&quot;

this is how i get the file name. i know for a face that [tt]youth-fun_stuff.asp[/tt] is a file. the question is, could there be a problem with making the file name in this way? and if so, is there a way around it?

 

[codestorm]

Is it in the same directory as the ASP page calling it? codestorm
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[tlhawkins]

Hey Theocratic guy...

Another thing to think about is that direct file access doesn't work with virtual filenames for the most part. You will need to provide a physical path to read or write data files. like:

&quot;C:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\myfile.asp&quot;

hope it helps.
and what is Theocratic anyway?

 

[codestorm]

Sounds religious to me. codestorm
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[theocraticmind]

codestorm,
ya, it's in the same directory.

tlhawkins,
in the past, i have never had to use absolute fie paths with FSO. but i will try. but i'm not to inclined to use a path from my hard drive. will &quot;

http://computer/whatever/youth-fun_stuff.asp&quot;

fork the same? (note:

http://computer

in the url for viewing all the stuff in my pws folder)

 

[tlhawkins]

well...

In my experience it is different everytime. I've used virtual filenames myself and had them work, but only from my computer. It seems like as soon as you use a dedicated server you need to use the absolute path, so it is probably a security setting someplace. I read a long explanation of it once but I still didn't understand it. I would give both methods a try and see what happens, it will probably take less time to try then it takes to read my long winded post...

hope ya get it.

 

[theocraticmind]

thanks, i'll try it. not only may that help with this problem, but i think it will help with a prolem i was having with a completely differant project. one that worked fine on my machine, then completely crumbled when i went live. thanks.

 

[theocraticmind]

when i atempt to use the absolute path

filename = "C://computer/church%20site/" & request.querystring("what") & ".asp"

the error moves up 2 lines to:

Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(filename, 1, 1)

the error is still [tt]server.createobject failed[/tt]. i'm not sure what that means...

 

[forecasting]

Does your webuser (IUser) have permissions to access the directory? What operating system are you using?

 

[theocraticmind]

Does your webuser (IUser) have permissions to access the directory?

i don't even know what &quot;webuser (IUser)&quot; is... sorry

What operating system are you using?

windows 98

 

[forecasting]

I am using W2000. When I check the properties for a directory, my internet anonymous user (IUSR_MachineName) needs to have privileges to write to a directory. I don't remember how 98 works.

However, have you tried:

filename = &quot;C:/computer/church site/&quot; & request.querystring(&quot;what&quot & &quot;.asp&quot;

to open the file?

 

[theocraticmind]

i have not tried that. but it would not work. &quot;

http://computer&quot;

acceses &quot;C:\windows\profiles\aron\my documents\pws\&quot;
so, i have tried:
filename = &quot;C:\windows\profiles\aron\my%20documents\pws\church%20site\&quot; & request.querystring(&quot;what&quot & &quot;.asp&quot;
and:
filename = &quot;

http://computer/church site/&quot;

& request.querystring(&quot;what&quot & &quot;.asp&quot;

ps.
when i posted
filename = &quot;C://computer/church%20site/&quot; & request.querystring(&quot;what&quot & &quot;.asp&quot;
as what i had tried, it was in err. i'm not sure why i messed that...

 

[theocraticmind]

ack! when i took out the %20 that were suposed to replace spots that had spaces. it worked.

 

[theocraticmind]

ok, so it works with an absolute file path that relates to my machine. how an i suposed to go live with that? is there no way to use the url? (like-&quot;

http://computer/church

site/youth-fun_stuff.asp&quot

 

[theocraticmind]

let me know if i'm wrong, but should [tt]Server.MapPath()[/tt] not do the trick?

 

[codestorm]

It should .. it'll return the absolute path. codestorm
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