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
Apache::ASP does a chdir() to the directory the script is running in, so you can access files as relative to that directory. A better approach is to find the absolute file name that you want to read, and then read it, so you don't rely on the chdir() behavior.
To find a file path relative to the include file search path, use the $Server->MapInclude() API, see http://www.apache-asp.org/objects.html#%24Server-%3EMapd3711f06
To find a file path transalated from a URI, use $Server->MapPath API, see http://www.apache-asp.org/objects.html#%24Server-%3EMap0fe1ebb5
Finally, after you have a file name, you can:
open(FILE, $file_name) || die("can't read file $file_name: $!");
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