Hi,
Personally, I use absolute paths. I usually have a variable
set to a base directory for easier maintainance.
If your curious about what the current working directory
actually is you can try this in a script:
print "Working directory is " . `cmd /c cd`;
Notice the backticks.
The user account running Apache, "Local System" by default, needs
the sufficient file permissions.
Hope this helps,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Byers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Website organization for secure ASP, perl scriptig
>
>
> OK, It looks like I have Apache setup and working correctly,
> including Perl,
> using mod-perl, and ASP. Now, I want to setup my website so that the
> scripts and the data they work on (that isn't taken from either a
> form or a
> database) live in directories outside htdocs (just as cgi-bin).
> But I have
> encountered a bit of trouble in that, when I use a script that
> does not need
> to read data from a file, it works perfectly, but I have yet to
> get a script
> that reads from a file to work. Note, it isn't getting the perl
> for reading
> a file that is the problem, since the script works fine from the command
> line. The problem is either where the script thinks it is running (which
> may not be where I would intuitively think it is, given all other
> programs I
> have written have been in compiled languages like C++ or FORTRAN)
> or it is a
> problem with permissions. Lets suppose that I have a hyperlink
> on my index
> page in htdocs which refers to a perl script in cgi-bin, and this script
> needs to read a file called mydata.dat (plain ascii, tab
> delimited, columns
> of numbers). Will the script think it is running in cgi-bin, and look for
> the data file there, or will it think it is in htdocs and look for the
> datafile there? And, if it will want to look in htdocs but I want it to
> look in cgi-bin, or some other directory outside htdocs (say,
> cgi-basic-data), how do I a) get it to look in the right place
> using a path
> relative to htdocs (e.g. "../cgi-basic-data" using a relative path I was
> able to get to work using VBScript), and do I have to do anything
> special to
> make sure it has the appropriate permissions to read the file?
>
> I should say this is with the latest binary distribution of
> Apache with SSL,
> mod-perl, ASP, PHP &c. for Windows (and I'm runnign W2K), but I'd expect
> that this particular question doesn't depend significantly on the
> OS or the
> distribution used.
>
> Thanks
>
> Cheers
>
> Ted
>
>
>
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