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Crashed ASPRunner

 		9/23/2012 11:31:23 AM
ASPRunnerPro General questions
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 flwebster author

Hi,

I published a web site in front page and then set up my asprunners as I always have (set up directories on host 3 levels below root, then change map to ../../../fpdb where the mdbs reside. I have done it hundreds of times but this time and every time since it did not work. On one computer I get a 500 internal configuration error, on a computer where I'm publishing to an ip 74.200.210.28 i get an error that says map path invalid characters .. (that i've done for years). I have replicated the error on seveal serv ers and several different database/form/asps. I have tried to set up a one field form and had it happen. Somehow my entire ASPRunner has crashed or some necessary other files.
How can I get my ASPRunner running again?? I have used it for years and totally depend on it for my work. I have spent the past four days trying to figure it out myself!!!
Sergey Kornilov admin 9/23/2012

It looks like your web host doesn't allow "Parent paths" meaning you cannot use .. characters in connection string. As a workaround you can specify an absolute path to the database file. This article explains how to achieve this:

http://xlinesoft.com/articles/servermappath_use_strategy.htm
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 		flwebster author 9/26/2012



It looks like your web host doesn't allow "Parent paths" meaning you cannot use .. characters in connection string. As a workaround you can specify an absolute path to the database file. This article explains how to achieve this:

http://xlinesoft.com/articles/servermappath_use_strategy.htm


What is bizarre is that up to one moment the server was taking the asprunners perfectly. First I got this error. Then when I tried making new asprunners on ANY OTHER SERVER I got 500 configuration errors and they wouldn't work. I do things exactly the same way I always have hundreds of times and on at least four different servers they all fail to work and return 500 internal configuration error. Is it possible that my ASPRunner software is corrupted? What else could be wrong? All my existing ASPRunners are failing to work as well, even through they are on different servers. I have dozens of web sites using ASPRunner that have stopped working.. Thank you for you help!!!!
Sergey Kornilov admin 9/26/2012

Did you have a chance to check my reply?
Id things are the way you describe it - this is the server setting and has nothing to do with ASPRunnerPro. If web hosting company prohibited using parent path in ASP - switch to absolute path in connection string. This is it.