Moving the DB out of the wwwroot dir
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Topic: Moving the DB out of the wwwroot dir
Posted By: evening_grosbea
Subject: Moving the DB out of the wwwroot dir
Date Posted: 27 January 2004 at 9:43pm
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How can I map the database to a dir outside of the wwwroot directory ?
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Posted By: neotrix
Date Posted: 27 January 2004 at 9:51pm
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instead of defining the vertual path, define the physical path, and u can host it anywhere. even out side the www rote directory ------------- http://www.muhammadbinyusrat.com/blog/" rel="nofollow - Say to the believing men.. |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 28 January 2004 at 1:17am
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The virtual path will look something like "C:\somedir\somedir\mydb.mdb" ------------- 
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Posted By: evening_grosbea
Date Posted: 28 January 2004 at 7:40am
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DP - I assume you meant to type "physical path"? Also - How can I find out what drive my site is on with my host. Do I just contact them, or can this be accomplished using FTP or another method? Thanks |
Posted By: neotrix
Date Posted: 28 January 2004 at 8:45am
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there are many ways to do it, there must be a file manager in ur CP, most of the file managers show you the physical path.. and there is mod as well ------------- http://www.muhammadbinyusrat.com/blog/" rel="nofollow - Say to the believing men.. |
Posted By: Eftie
Date Posted: 28 January 2004 at 10:15am
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And your provider has to allow physical path mapping and/or ../ in the servermappath function, otherwise youre stuck as well ------------- Eftie |
Posted By: snapey
Date Posted: 28 January 2004 at 5:49pm
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To find your physical path, enter this in a page response.write(server.MapPath("/")) This will show you the physical path to your root directory. My hosting company has all web content in a folder called htdocs, and then parallel to this is a folder called private. So whenever I want to access a file in the private area I use something like: strRootPath = Server.MapPath("/")strDbPathAndName =((Left(strRootPath,len(strRootPath)-6)) & "private/wwForum.mdb") There should be 2 lines above, but the second has wrapped so be sure to enter it all on one line. Why go to all this trouble? Because I can use the same code on any of my sites, and the physical path may change, but I can always find my databases no matter which site it is, or which folder the asp is running in.
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Posted By: evening_grosbea
Date Posted: 28 January 2004 at 7:39pm
Awesome response Snapey - Thanks!
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 28 January 2004 at 9:52pm
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<dopeslap action="uppercut" location="upside-head"> DOH !</dopeslap> -------------
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evening_grosbea wrote: