My cursory research indicated that ASP 2.0 and 3.0 were about the same and therefore thought that the pages I created as "ASP VB Script" on my Win2K box would still work when I put them onto the Win NT4 server. I'm having two problems so far that I'm hoping someone can help me with.

1) The Connection String is handled by an ASP include that points to the "Connection.asp" file. But the server gives me the error Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0131'

Disallowed Parent Path

/scout/news.asp, line 4

The Include file '../Connections/ScoutConn.asp' cannot contain '..' to indicate the parent directory.

Isn't there a way to have an ASP include of a file that's not in the same folder as the file calling it?

2) More importantly, I've set up an application variable to handle connections that isn't agreeing with the server either. I don't have the error handy, but I'm wondering if Application Variables established in the Global.asa file are not supported by NT4.

If the problem is that NT4 isn't running ASP 2.0, is there a way to upgrade it to 3.0? I can't upgrade the server or the server OS, and I'm not allowed to use ASP.NET by my networking organization. Does anyone have any solutions to these problems tat falls within my available parameters?

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