Need Help Getting LiveCode Server to Write to a File

[Gregory Lypny]

Hi Devin,

Bless you. I got rid of the curly quotes. How embarrassing. I then created a folder called myFolder, with read and write permissions for everyone, in WebServer/Documents, and it works. The trouble is, the Documents folder is where the HTML pages and LiveCode scripts reside, so I think that is a security concern. Pierre Sahores recommended putting any data folders I create inside WebServer/share/httpd, so I have to figure out the file path to get them there. The folder named share is at the same level as Documents.

Thanks once again,

Gregory



On Wed, Nov 13, 2013, at 2:31 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Gregory,
> 
> I don't think LC Server scripts are "aware" of the full file system on your HD, only the web root and child directories to it. (Someone will correct me if I'm wrong about this, I'm sure. :) ) Try writing to a folder/file relative to the defaultFolder of the LC script file. 
> 
> put "foo" into url "file:my folder/myFile.txt"
> 
> As an aside, I'm assuming that the "curly quotes" in your message were added by you email client, and weren't there in your script?
> 
> Devin
> 
> Devin Asay