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BurtleEd
BurtleEd
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February 26, 2010
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ExpandPath to a mapped drive question

  • February 26, 2010
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We have an intranet site with a page that is controlled by an XML file. Right now the XML file is located on the web root. I wanted to see if I caould have the XML file on a mapped drive. It errors out with the path below.

<cfset CoolXmlFile = ExpandPath("Y:/COOP/Metwatch/modify/bk1.xml") />

<cffile action="read" file="#CoolXmlFile#" variable="input_xml" />

Here is the error. for some reason it puts a slash in....?

An error occurred when performing a file operation read on file C:\wwwroot\Layout\FrontPage\bk1\Y:\COOP\Metwatch\modify\bk1.xml.

The cause of this exception was: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\wwwroot\Layout\FrontPage\bk1\Y:\COOP\Metwatch\modify\bk1.xml (The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect).

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    Correct answer

    Make sure the file permissions are right...  You WILL need to switch CF to using a Domain Login in the service properties to get the UNC crap to work.

    D.

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    Anonymous
    Correct answer
    February 26, 2010

    Make sure the file permissions are right...  You WILL need to switch CF to using a Domain Login in the service properties to get the UNC crap to work.

    D.

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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    February 26, 2010

    Does the CF server have permissions to that file location?

    How is the drive mapping created?  If it's just via "map a network" in Windows explorer, that's specific to your Windows Explorer shell, which CF doesn't use, so it won't know about it.  If it's done as a login script... CF will need to be logging with an account that runs that login script (if even service-logins run login scripts?)

    You're better off using a UNC path.  The CF server still needs permissions to see the remote resource though.

    --

    Adam

    BurtleEd
    BurtleEdAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 26, 2010

    Alright I changed it to

    <cfset MyXmlFile = ExpandPath("\\192.168.10.220\shared\COOP\Metwatch\sourceinfo.xml") />

    Still it shows this error

    An error occurred when performing a file operation read on file C:\wwwroot\192.168.0.220\shared\COOP\Metwatch\sourceinfo.xml.

    The cause of this exception was: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\wwwroot\131.10.205.178\shared\COOP\Metwatch\sourceinfo.xml (The system cannot find the path specified).

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