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mpickett
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United Kingdom
6 Posts

Posted - 24 August 2003 : 20:59:36

My host has switched to IIS 6 (I think) and my ../ file references no longer work. Is there a quick solution? Thank you!!

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Edited by - mpickett on 24 August 2003 21:11:40

Doug G
Support Moderator

USA
6493 Posts

Posted - 24 August 2003 : 21:01:06

Do you get some kind of error, like "disallowed parent path"?

If it's this error, there is a setting in IIS to enable/disable parent paths.

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mpickett
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United Kingdom
6 Posts

Posted - 24 August 2003 : 21:08:48

Thanks Doug G. I look after a couple of IIS 6 web servers at work and have changed the setting you mentioned. This did work. However, I'm looking for a way round this with my 'home use host' 2020Media. Is there a hard code alternative that I can use to save the agony of persuading my host to change their settings? Why have Microsoft set this default? Security I guess!?

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Gremlin
General Help Moderator

New Zealand
7528 Posts

Posted - 24 August 2003 : 23:28:45

By default in IIS6 parent paths are disabled (they were enabled by default on earlier versions). Yes it's been done for security reasons, there was quite a nasty little exploit or 3 involving "../" in the past.

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