Conversion of Reporting Starter Kit to use Mono/MySQL

using System;
using System.Web;

namespace ASPNET.StarterKit.Reports 
{
	public class Global 
	{
		// Configuation constants used for retrieving application setting values from the
		// web.config file.
		public const string CfgKeyConnString = "ConnectionString";

		//*********************************************************************
		//
		// GetApplicationPath Method
		//
		// This method returns the correct relative path when installing
		// the portal on a root web site instead of virtual directory
		//
		//*********************************************************************

		public static string GetApplicationPath(HttpRequest request) 
		{
			string path = string.Empty;
			try 
			{
				if(request.ApplicationPath != "/")
					path = request.ApplicationPath;
			}
			catch (Exception e)
			{
				throw e;
			}
			return path;
		}
	}
}