session variable lost across different folders

Hi

A session variable that I have created can only be shared by the pages within the same directory where the page containing the session variable is sitting. Once I redirect the page to another page outside the folder (a different folder), the session variable is lost (empty). I understood that a session variable is meant to be used across all files in an application. Am I missing something here? Or I didn't setup properly?

Please help.

ThanksIs is useable throughout and application. IE if you have an application directory called /myapp then all folders under that directory will accept the session variable. (I think). There are a number of ways to get around this. If you tell me were the 2 differnt folders are located,(relative to eachother). and what kind of value you are trying to pass I'll be able to help you.

One last thing: what kinda of script are you trying to write? login page, shopping cart, etc...

Ryder
Thanks Ryder!

I have an application folder called 'QSAConnect' and under this folder there are several sub-folders. The page with the session variable called Session("StudentID") is saved in a sub-folder called 'AbsRecordEntry', and I want to redirect this page to another page, called absreport.aspx, which requires this Session("StudentID") as a passing parameter for all the functions. The target page(absreport.aspx) is located in a sub-directory called 'AbsReport'. Here is the code:

 Sub btnViewReport_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
 Dim strStudentID as string
 strStudentID=lbxStudentLastName.Items(lbxStudentLastName.SelectedIndex).Value
 Session("StudentID") = strStudentID
 response.redirect(".../AbsReport/absreport.aspx")
End Sub

This produced an empty session variable when the absreport.aspx loaded. But if I place the file absreport.aspx under AbsRecordEntry folder and change code to:

response.redirect("absreport.aspx")

there is no problem.

I hope you can understand my explanation.

Thanks again

Haiyi
hmmm, I created a similar situation on my testing server a few minutes ago and it worked fine. But what I did notice is that i wrote my response.redirect line a bit differntly and I think that may be it.

see, here is how you wrote yours: response.redirect(".../AbsReport/absreport.aspx")
and this is how I wrote mine: response.redirect("../AbsReport/absreport.aspx")

notice I only have 2 periods not 3. So my next step was to try my code with 3 periods. It generated an error, so i beleive that may be it. The only onther thing I could think of off the top of my head was that maybe the folder AbsRecordEntry or AbsReport is also an application directory. because this would cause a problem perhaps.

Let me know if this works.

Ryder