Server.MapPath() can't go up 2 levels?

Question

I've been studying this excellent Stack post about Server.MapPath() , and I can't find anything in there that takes me up 2 levels from the current location.

Server.MapPath("./"); // this works - current path
Server.MapPath("../"); // this works - parent path
Server.MapPath("/"); // this works - virtual root path (2 levels HIGHER than I need)
Server.MapPath(".../"); // This fails

Is there no way to go up 2 levels? (That would be the parent of the parent folder.)

Yes, I can accomplish this by going to the virtual root and then parsing/combining, but that seems hackish. Looking for something more elegant or canonical.

Answer 1

.. goes up on folder, so ../../ will go up two levels and so on.

Note that this will not let you go outside of your site's root folder: if page is "/foo/bar.aspx" trying to map "../.." will fail if your site is at the root.

Answer 2

In windows there is no .../ path.

• ./ means the current directory
• ../ means one level above

Note: You can think the quantity of . are the quantity of levels, but that isn't so.

2 Levels above are ../../ , 3 Levels ../../../ and so on.