On Thursday 18 November 2010 16:32:08 Mike Martin wrote:
> Has anyone got any approaches that enable cgi scripts to access the
> host filesystem (readonly)
>
There shouldn't be any problem for a CGI script to access the filesystem as
long as the user the CGI is running under has the necessary UNIX-wise
permissions. However, note that many web-servers will run CGI scripts under a
very unprivileged UNIX user.
> I am working on a doc viewer app (intended for release as part of a
> suite), but I am hitting the "permission denied" issue.
>
What does the system that runs this CGI program is running (operating system,
distribution, version, etc.)? Did you try it at home?
> This applies to ls, opendir and find.
Well, you shouldn't normally use the "ls" and "find" programs from within
Perl, but thanks for trying. When you login to the system using ssh what does
"ls -ld" say on the paths up to and including the path you're trying to list?
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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