trevor oakley

Dan, I tried this early on, but I do not understand why it returns my hard
disk directory when I am using a Web server. I expected something referring
to the Web server.

Also, my book only uses examples referring to hard disk directories.

Trevor

"Dan" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> > I am trying
> >
> > dbStr = Server.MapPath("../TestDatabase.mdb")
> > Response.write("db string " & dbStr)
>
> do a response.write(server.mappath("test.asp")) then that will show you
the
> full path. Use that path to find the path to your db. For example if it
> returns something like "d:/users/blah/html/test.asp" then you could change
> it to "d:/users/database/db.mdb" and set your db string to this directly.
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