Could not find a part of the path '../../Web

bex · March 21st, 2009, 01:00 PM

Hi there this in my las trouble 4 this project,
I have a label that reads from a text file page load, on my PC works fine, i upload it on the server changed the path and the error came up.

on my machine the path is:C:\Users\test\, when i upload this on the server how do i change this?

thanks

dparsons · March 21st, 2009, 01:06 PM

When testing web applications you should try to keep your dev environment setup as close to the that of the production environment as possible to help avoid these types of errors.

What do you mean by this line: "on my machine the path is:C:\Users\test\, when i upload this on the server how do i change this? "

Are you asking how to change the path from which the file is pulled? Or are you saying that when you upload the text file it goes to a different directory and you want to know how to change that?

-Doug

bex · March 21st, 2009, 01:18 PM

yes the directory it changes it goes 2 dir up,

in my machine is

Code:

Dim FILE_NAME AsString = "../DATA/Templates/" & Me.Label1.Text & ""
Dim objReader AsNew System.IO.StreamReader(FILE_NAME)

on the server i changed it to :

Code:

Dim FILE_NAME AsString = "../../../DATA/Templates/" & Me.Label1.Text & ""
Dim objReader AsNew System.IO.StreamReader(FILE_NAME)

the error i get in the browser is:
Could not find a part of the path 'c:\windows\system32\..\..\Data\templates\textfile .txt

Lee Dumond · March 21st, 2009, 02:09 PM

It appears that the directory structure on your server is different than on your dev box, so naturally, just jumping up 2 directories would not help you.

It also appears you are attempting to read a file in a path outside of your web site. Normally, you wouldn't have permissions to do that in a hosted situation, even if you could correctly resolve the path.

You'd be a lot better off putting textfile.txt in a directory inside your website. I would suggest App_Data, as that would automatically make it secure from being casually browsed by users. Then, resolve the path using Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/textfile.txt") to get the physical path.

bex · March 21st, 2009, 04:13 PM

thanks Lee,