Hi. I have a virtual directory named Vehicles which serves a website. An
..aspx page in the Vehicles directory needs to display an image from a folder
existing one folder above Vehicles.

So I tried this. myImage.ImageURL = "../../image.gif"

And it's not working. Is this because when I use "../" it will only look
inside the Virtual Directory and not outside of it?

Thanks

...'s work at iis level, not file. so ../../image is the virtual
directory above your site. a common approach is to have a root vdir
called images then you just:

myImage.ImageURL = "/images/image.gif";

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

Mike wrote:
> Hi. I have a virtual directory named Vehicles which serves a website. An
> .aspx page in the Vehicles directory needs to display an image from a folder
> existing one folder above Vehicles.
>
> So I tried this. myImage.ImageURL = "../../image.gif"
>
> And it's not working. Is this because when I use "../" it will only look
> inside the Virtual Directory and not outside of it?
>
> Thanks

If you are using an ASP control and not a HTML control then you can use the
"~" in your path instead of ".." like this:
myImage.ImageURL = "~/images/image.gif".

Using the ~ the path will resolve for you.

Regards,
Brian K. Williams





"Mike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4ACF8D40-CA63-4244-9697-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi. I have a virtual directory named Vehicles which serves a website. An
> .aspx page in the Vehicles directory needs to display an image from a
> folder
> existing one folder above Vehicles.
>
> So I tried this. myImage.ImageURL = "../../image.gif"
>
> And it's not working. Is this because when I use "../" it will only look
> inside the Virtual Directory and not outside of it?
>
> Thanks

"Brian K. Williams" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...

> If you are using an ASP control and not a HTML control then you can use
> the "~" in your path instead of ".." like this:
> myImage.ImageURL = "~/images/image.gif".
>
> Using the ~ the path will resolve for you.

But not in this particular case, obviously...


--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

Chances are, IIS is configured to disallow "parent paths," which are
relative paths that lead to a parent directory. This is often (and by
default in IIS 6 and above) configured to prevent specific attacks that use
parent paths to access system directories outside the web site. Using
root-relative paths or virtual paths is your best bet.

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP

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"Mike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4ACF8D40-CA63-4244-9697-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi. I have a virtual directory named Vehicles which serves a website. An
> .aspx page in the Vehicles directory needs to display an image from a
> folder
> existing one folder above Vehicles.
>
> So I tried this. myImage.ImageURL = "../../image.gif"
>
> And it's not working. Is this because when I use "../" it will only look
> inside the Virtual Directory and not outside of it?
>
> Thanks

Thank you all for your help with this question!

"Kevin Spencer" wrote:

> Chances are, IIS is configured to disallow "parent paths," which are
> relative paths that lead to a parent directory. This is often (and by
> default in IIS 6 and above) configured to prevent specific attacks that use
> parent paths to access system directories outside the web site. Using
> root-relative paths or virtual paths is your best bet.
>
> --
> HTH,
>
> Kevin Spencer
> Microsoft MVP
>
> DSI PrintManager, Miradyne Component Libraries:
> http://www.miradyne.net
>
> "Mike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4ACF8D40-CA63-4244-9697-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi. I have a virtual directory named Vehicles which serves a website. An
> > .aspx page in the Vehicles directory needs to display an image from a
> > folder
> > existing one folder above Vehicles.
> >
> > So I tried this. myImage.ImageURL = "../../image.gif"
> >
> > And it's not working. Is this because when I use "../" it will only look
> > inside the Virtual Directory and not outside of it?
> >
> > Thanks
>
>
>