Copy a file

[RFH Customer: PascalUK]

Hi,

My goal is to duplicate (copy) a file already in the root of my website. i.e. copy www.mysite.com/file.txt to www.mysite.com/newfile.txt

It works fine on my PC (VWD environment) but get an error when I try to execute the code on the server.

the code is the following:

Dim fs
fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
fs.CopyFile(Server.MapPath("File.txt"), Server.MapPath("newFile.txt"))

Can you help? Many thanks in advance, and Happy New Year to everyone!

Pascal

[RFH Reseller: nick]

You could do it with PHP like this:

copy('file.txt','newfile.txt'); 

[RFH Customer: PascalUK]

thanks Nick for your help. I do not know if I can mix PHP and ASP.NET? But I do not thing it is a language issue anyway, because it works on my PC.

[Tanzy]

Hi,

Dim fs
fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
fs.CopyFile(Server.MapPath("File.txt"), Server.MapPath("newFile.txt"))

Note that this is ASP not ASP.Net code that you are using. Under Medium Trust you are not allowed to create ActiveX objects (if my memory serves me).

Try this code

Try
Dim sourceFile AsString = Server.MapPath("test.txt")
Dim destinationFile AsString = Server.MapPath("tester" & DateTime.Now.ToString("MMddyyy") & ".txt")
System.IO.File.Copy(sourceFile, destinationFile)
Catch Ex As Exception
Response.Write(Ex.Message)
EndTry

I have tested this in my test enviroment and it works in Medium Trust, and I'm using .Net2

Hope it helps

[RFH Customer: PascalUK]

Thank you Tanzy for your answer it works!

[Tanzy]

No problem, you have to be careful when you look for ASP.net code, make sure that you don't get confused with Classic ASP (aka ASP 3). With ASP.Net you can code in 2 languages vb.net or C#