Could not find file \www\App_Data\Survey.txt'

mengi23 · March 29th, 2011, 01:03 PM

Hello,
I created a webform to send to email using chapter 9 instructions (http://www.surroundtech.com/events/msteched/Survey.aspx) and runs perfect on my local computer, however, when I upload (we use godaddy) and try to submit the survey this is the error I receive:

Server Error in '/www' Application.

Could not find file 'D:\Hosting\3714623\html\www\App_Data\Survey.txt'.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'D:\Hosting\3714623\html\www\App_Data\Survey.txt'.

Source Error:

Line 71:
Line 72: string fileName = Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/Survey.txt");
Line 73: string mailBody = File.ReadAllText(fileName);
Line 74:
Line 75: mailBody = mailBody.Replace("##JobTitle##", JobTitle.Text);

Source File: d:\hosting\3714623\html\www\Events\MSTechEd\Survey .aspx.cs Line: 73

Stack Trace:

[FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'D:\Hosting\3714623\html\www\App_Data\Survey.txt'.]

I had to change the whole site to use 3.5 framework because of compatibility problems at the server - but same error with 4.0.

Not sure why this is happening and if there's a way to fix it.... Thanks,

Imar · March 29th, 2011, 01:12 PM

Hi there,

It looks your site doesn't contain an App_Data folder at the root, or that it contains no Survey.txt file or that the account used by the web server doesn't have permissions to read it.

Can you confirm the file exists? How is your site setup and how do you browse to it? E.g. to what address do you browse?

Also, take a look at this:

File: d:\hosting\3714623\html\www\Events\MSTechEd\Survey .aspx.cs Line: 73
...
[FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'D:\Hosting\3714623\html\www\App_Data\Survey.txt'.]

There are teo intermediate folders in between there. Looks like Events folder or the MSTechEd folder hasn't been set up as an application.

Imar

mengi23 · March 29th, 2011, 01:27 PM

Hi Imar,

Just changed the path and it worked... that was so simple, thank you so much for your help.

You are such a genius! I absolutely loved your book, but feel as if I am just in this "copy/paste" mode where no thinking skills are required (or used) ... It's like there's an abyss between now and actually programming an application... maybe I am too old to learn it...

Imar · March 29th, 2011, 02:41 PM

Quote:

maybe I am too old to learn it...

You're never too old to learn. I just takes a lot of practice as it can be complicated at times... ;-)

Imar