"Ravi, Dallas, Texas" <mravichandran@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dear Readers,
>
> good afternoon. i am trying to identify the physical path
> programmatically when my server application drops a file inside c:
> \MyServer\MyServerOutput folder. this folder at the lowest level is a
> virutal directory called 'myserveroutput'. i get a file name:
> http://localhost/myserveroutput/filename.mdb. when i parse out the
> string in a web application residing in
http://localhost/myapplication/default.aspx
> and try to do a server.mappath(~/myserveroutput), it returns a non-
> existing path of c:\inetpub\wwwroot\myapplication\myserveroutput
> \filename.mdb instead of going after c:\MyServer\MyServerOutput
> \filename.mdb.
>
> i searched on the internet for server.mappath() results and all
> examples talk about the web application folder and the data folder
> being under the c:\inetpub\wwwroot.
>
> the iis console sees my myserveroutput being present c:\myserver
> \myserveroutput\ folder correctly. i am only surprised whether it is
> a bug in server.map(strpath) folder for folders not under \inetput
> \wwwroot.
>