Cannot set up file browser functionality

I have been using FCKeditor in a website I am creating and have so far been impressed with it's functionality. However, I do not seem able to get the File Browser functionality working. Whenever I click on "Browse server", I get an XML request error: Internal server error 500. I have read through a number of the posts in the forums, but can't seem to find a solution that works.

I am using the php connector, and other simple php pages work correctly on my server.

One thing I have found is that the connector.php page seems to fail whenever parameters are passed into via the URL. I have been able to replicate this same failure by creating a simple HTML form which calls a php page to display the passed form parameters. When I use method=GET with $_GET, the page fails with the same error as above. If I change the HTML form to use method=POST and $_POST in the php page, the parameters are passed correctly.

Does anyone know if I need to amend something in the php.ini file on my server to get this functionality working? Any suggestions gratefuly received.

Sat, 02/23/2008 - 17:01

ccr

Joined: 23/02/2008

Posts: 4

Re: Cannot set up file browser functionality

http://www.yourstore

Sat, 02/23/2008 - 17:13

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

Re: Cannot set up file browser functionality

can you try to use the FileSystemObject in a test page?

   
Dim oFSO
   Set oFSO = Server.CreateObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" )

If that fails, then it's some setting on the server that might be blocking it., if it works, then open the io.asp file and start writing response.write messages to understand exactly why it fails.

Tue, 02/26/2008 - 21:56

vinceect

Joined: 26/02/2008

Posts: 4

Re: Cannot set up file browser functionality

I am the developer for Ecommerce Templates which is the product that CCR is using when he is having this problem. I've been doing some investigating and it seems that in filemanager/connectors/asp/io.asp in the CreateServerFolder function we are getting into a loop. The initial path is (changing the names to protect the innocent etc) "c:\home\foldername". There is a check to see if the parent folder exists, which apparently it doesn't so the CreateServerFolder function is called recursively with the parent folder name, "c:\home". The same then happens with "c:\" for another loop. Now, the folderPath is an empty string "". The parent folder is the same, an empty string and so we end up in an endless loop until the line...
Set oFSO = Server.CreateObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" )
...fails with an "out of memory" error.
I can't get a decent error out of the system by changing...
If ( NOT oFSO.FolderExists( sParent ) ) Then CreateServerFolder( sParent )
...to...
If ( NOT oFSO.FolderExists( sParent ) AND sParent<>"" ) Then CreateServerFolder( sParent )
Then I get an error "You have no permissions to create the folder."
This sounds more reasonable but what I don't understand is, if I'm just browsing the server why am I trying to create folders? Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks!

Vince

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 13:01

jameseldred

Joined: 22/02/2008

Posts: 2

Re: Cannot set up file browser functionality

Hi all, I've found that my problem was caused by an incorrect set up of php on my server. Not sure exactly how this happened, but I re-installed php from scratch and the problem regarding parameters in the URL has now disappeared.

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 14:14

vinceect

Joined: 26/02/2008

Posts: 4

Re: Cannot set up file browser functionality

Ok, I see we kind of hijacked your post but if anyone has any ideas about this problem on the ASP side it would be very much appreciated.

Vince