Question

I have shared hosting account on some hosting service provider. So, I can upload pics or something else through FTP. For instance, my ASP .NET binaries are in /mysite.com/www/bin. But how can I set logging to file in my app? I should use real paths for that purpose. I even try just write to current directory, but I can see this log file through FTP. It just writes to some tmp path as I guess, like ” which couldn’t be accessed through FTP.
So how can I setup file path for logging?

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This is how I try to write to current binaries directory:

using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(String.Format("{0}{1}{2}", Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location), "\", "log.txt"), true))
{
  sw.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString() + ": " + msg);
  sw.WriteLine("------------");
  sw.Flush();
  sw.Close();
}

It write to some long windows path, which I guess it uses for some temporary storing of binaries.

Answer 1

I solved it myself. You should use HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath for that.