Question

I am working on a web application which uses the FileUpload control. I have an xls file in the full filepath ‘C:\Mailid.xls’ that I am attempting to upload.

When I use the command

FileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName 

I cannot get the full filepath from my system. However, when I use the above command in another system it works fine.

I also tried the following commands with no success:

   System.IO.Path.GetFullPath(FileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName);
   Path.GetFileName(FileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName);
   System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(FileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName).ToString();
   Convert.ToString(System.IO.Directory.GetParent(FileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName));

How can I get full path?

Answer 1

Try

Server.MapPath(FileUpload1.FileName);

Edit: This answer describes how to get the path to a file on the server. It does not describe how to get the path to a file on the client, which is what the question asked. The answer to that question is “you can’t”, because modern browser will not tell you the path on the client, for security reasons.