Trouble with virtual directories

[RoKKos]

Hi

Think I have a problem with firewalls and virtual directories.

I have a asp page on a webserver, on that server the sysop has created a virtual directory to were the databas is and it only lest thing trow on port 80. Do asp call db:s on port 80???

The path I´m using to call the vir.dir. is [server.mappath("./db/menu.mdb&quot].
Should I use somteting like [Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO&quot] instead??

 

[onpnt]

what would that . in there be trying to accomplish?

if the db is local to the directory then you server.mappath it only onthe name of the db and exclude parent directories. if the db is in the parent then simply use the parent/name.mdb in the value of the mappath

eg:
parent location
server.mappath("db/menu.mdb&quot

direct
server.mappath("menu.mdb&quot

also notice I took the / out of the picture. in most cases if the database is located in the parent directory "db" in your case and you have the / in fron of the parameter you will indeed end up with
C:\

http://wwwroot\db\db\menu.mdb

debug the function by writing the value and ending the response
eg:
response.write server.mappath("db/menu.mdb&quot
response.end

then validate if the path shown on the screen is valid




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