Accessing data files

I wrote some cgi code for a UNIX system and was able to acces my data files
just fine. This code was then uploaded via Front Page to a windows system.
When executed a File Not Found was received. Contacted there support and they
gave me a way to receive the data. The problem is what they gave me was
absolute addressing. I would like to do this relatively. What they gave me
looks like this.
$db = "E:\\xxxxxx\\mysite\\www\\cgi-bin\\Data\\Text.dat";
Initially I had. $db = "Data/Text.dat". This worked on my Unix server.
Does anybody know of way to make this relative. Absolute is bad if they
decide to move the data to another location.
Thanks in advance
Lawood

when you were using the "relative" path, was it like "../../data/text.dat"?
if so the problem most likely is that the host has disallowed parent paths.
this is the "out of the box" state for Windows server 2003.

Here's how to make it not act that way:
http://contentseed.com/Docs/Windows...arent-Paths.pdf

HTH

--
Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

If you make web sites for other people, you should check out ContentSeed:
http://contentseed.com/
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"Lawood" <Lawood@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I wrote some cgi code for a UNIX system and was able to acces my data files
> just fine. This code was then uploaded via Front Page to a windows system.
> When executed a File Not Found was received. Contacted there support and
> they
> gave me a way to receive the data. The problem is what they gave me was
> absolute addressing. I would like to do this relatively. What they gave me
> looks like this.
> $db = "E:\\xxxxxx\\mysite\\www\\cgi-bin\\Data\\Text.dat";
> Initially I had. $db = "Data/Text.dat". This worked on my Unix server.
> Does anybody know of way to make this relative. Absolute is bad if they
> decide to move the data to another location.
> Thanks in advance
> Lawood

Maybe thats the problem. I used $db = "Data/Text.dat" whereas maybe it should
be
$db = "../../Data/Text.dat". I was doing this from the cgi-bin folder.

Leonard

"Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage" wrote:

> when you were using the "relative" path, was it like "../../data/text.dat"?
> if so the problem most likely is that the host has disallowed parent paths.
> this is the "out of the box" state for Windows server 2003.
>
> Here's how to make it not act that way:
> http://contentseed.com/Docs/Windows...arent-Paths.pdf
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Chris Leeds,
> Microsoft MVP-FrontPage
>
> If you make web sites for other people, you should check out ContentSeed:
> http://contentseed.com/
> --
> "Lawood" <Lawood@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E0D4BBB9-15A8-43E8-9BCF-C298566771A5@microsoft.com...
> >I wrote some cgi code for a UNIX system and was able to acces my data files
> > just fine. This code was then uploaded via Front Page to a windows system.
> > When executed a File Not Found was received. Contacted there support and
> > they
> > gave me a way to receive the data. The problem is what they gave me was
> > absolute addressing. I would like to do this relatively. What they gave me
> > looks like this.
> > $db = "E:\\xxxxxx\\mysite\\www\\cgi-bin\\Data\\Text.dat";
> > Initially I had. $db = "Data/Text.dat". This worked on my Unix server.
> > Does anybody know of way to make this relative. Absolute is bad if they
> > decide to move the data to another location.
> > Thanks in advance
> > Lawood
>
>
>