Question

In my code I want to thanks to the good path, open the file Index.html in my IIS server.

I am actually using this :

        string path = "C://inetpub//wwwroot//Files//Wireframes//" + ((LinkButton)sender).ID;
        System.IO.DirectoryInfo di = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(path);
        System.IO.FileInfo[] fiArr = di.GetFiles("*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);

        foreach (System.IO.FileInfo thefile in fiArr)
        {
            if (thefile.Name == "index.html")
            {
                System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(path + "/index.html");
            }

        }
    }

I am wondering why It is working in local, but when I put my project on my server, this is not doing anything.

Answer 1

Because:

1. Your website is in different folder
2. You don’t have a default application assigned to .html extension
3. Your web app runs under an account which cannot interact with the desktop (ie. NETWORK)

Also, instead of searching for * search for index.html in GetFiles.

Make sure that you understand that you are creating a new process on the machine which hosts your web site and not on machine that is running your browser. You want be able to navigate to a page on hosted on machine B from machine A and have a new browser window opened on machine A from machine B.