# Coldfusion: Problems with CFFILE action

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/coldfusion-problems-with-cffile-action/210220>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [December 16, 2006, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/coldfusion-problems-with-cffile-action/210220 "2006-12-16T11:22:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![estateboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@estateboy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/estateboy)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2006, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/coldfusion-problems-with-cffile-action/210220/1 "2006-12-16T11:22:19Z")

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hi everybody

I have a upload.cfm page to upload pictures to a certain folder on the server! **upload.cfm** is located in a folder named “\*\*controlroom” \*\*the destination folder for the pictures is named **"photos"**

Locally everything works fine using the following path:

**destination="C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\A20 properties\photos"**

So how should this path look like for the remote server? Somebody made the suggestion to use expandPath but I have not a clue how to use that?

Can somebody please help me in the right direction.

Thank you all in advance