server.mappath

[georgeous]

I am using the server.mappath command to locate my asp files.
I'm on the university servers, and when i did
<%=Server.MapPath(&quot;\&quot%> to see where they were,
the page returned d:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\mydir\mypage.asp

this must be wrong since the d drive is a cd drive
how can i get it to return the proper server path?

 

[travmak]

I work for the gov and I had a similar problem, the server.mappath pointed to something totaly out of the blue. Something to do with the fire wall and all that don't hack me crap. I had to ask the administrator to set my DB folder to shared and give me the actual path. it will be something short and to the point probably like (//schoolweb/dbfolder/db.mdb)

 

[georgeous]

yep it looks really similar to that.

i'm doing a CopyFile function.
i've tried doing ... CopyFile //schoolweb/folder/mypage....
but it won't work.
when i do server.mapPath/mypage it works(well it would do if it pointed to the right place)
is the only way i can fix this by asking admin?

 

[travmak]

are you getting an error?

 

[georgeous]

it just says file not found.
this is because it is looking in d:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\myusername

it should be looking in

\\ourserver\

http://www\myusername\mydirectory

i don't know how to change it

 

[travmak]

That is exactly what it said when I tried to do a server.mappath. f:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\fpdb\db.mdb

I had to call the administrator to set the fpdb folder to shared and get the actual server path. Then change my data source to match the path he gave me:

data_source = &quot;Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source=&quot; & _
(&quot;//servername/fbpd/db.mdb&quot