Name

MapPath — Server.MapPath (strPath )

Synopsis

The MapPath method allows you to determine the physical path on the server, given a virtual or relative path.

Parameters

strPath

A complete virtual path or a path relative to the path of the current script's home directory on the server. The method determines how to interpret the string depending on if it starts with either a slash (/) or a backslash (\). If the strPath parameter begins with either of these characters, the string is assumed to be a complete virtual path. Otherwise, the physical path returned is the path relative to the current script's physical directory on the web server.

Example

<%

' The following line of code determines the physical path
' of the current script for later use.
strSearchPath = _
   Server.MapPath("/searchscripts/start/searchstart.asp")

' This following code then uses the strSearchPath string to
' determine the file attributes for the current file for 
' display in the client-side HTML.
Set fs = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f = fs.GetFile(strSearchPath)
datFileLastModified = f.DateLastModified
%>
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>MapPath Example</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
The current script was last modified <%=datFileLastModified%>.
</BODY>
</HTML>

Notes

There are two important facts to remember when using the MapPath method. The first is that it does not support the standard MS-DOS relative directory notation ("." and ".."). For this reason, the following line of code will result in a runtime ...

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