Parent path issue in IIS 7.5

Question

I am facing a file not found issue while setting up my classic asp website in windows 7 which has iis 7.5 in it. It was working perfectly fine in windows xp which had iis 5, I guess.

When I am trying to access the file header.asp (which is located in "test\\include_files\\header.asp") from "test\\manager\\team.asp" it tries to look for the header.asp in the path "test\\manager\\include_files\\header.asp" whereas it should look into "test\\include_files\\header.asp".

In the file team.asp, this is how I am calling the file: <!-- #include file="../include_files/header.asp" -->

I understand in IIS 6 and above the parent path is not enabled by default and I have enabled it through IIS Manager but still no luck. I searched the Internet and also this site, and the only thing that needs to be done it seems is to enable the parent path which I have already done. I also tried by typing in the full path as in: "test\\include_files\\header.asp" but no luck!

Please advise what else needs to be done to have it working. Thanks in advance for your help and time!

Answer 1

When you use include file , you must refer to the file as drive path, not web path.

So change your / to \\ , like this:

<!--#include file="..\include_files\header.asp"--> 

If you would like to do include virtual then you can use / instead of \\ .

<!--#include virtual="../include_files/header.asp"--> 

So to resolve your issue, change the \\ to / or change from include file to include virtual