On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Justin Luster wrote: > I'm new to mod_perl and I'm really enjoying it. It has really improved > performance. Right now I'm just using Modperl::Registry to speed up > things. I have a question about showing graphics using a Perl Script > and running it through mod_perl. [ ... ] > It seems that the current working directory for the Perl scripts when > run under mod_perl is in the bin directory where Apache.exe is.
That behaviour was introduced into Win32 Apache some time back, one reason being, as I understand it, is so that one could double-click on the Apache icon to start it up. > I have considered using absolute paths but even that does not > seem to work correctly with graphics. [ ... ] As Per Einar mentioned in an earlier reply, using absolute server paths is the best solution - generally, for cgi and registry scripts, one should not rely on an assumption of a current working directory. There is a module, FindBin, which reveals the directory of a script, but as explained in the perl-5.8 docs for FindBin, there's some caveats to using it under mod_perl and other persistant Perl environments. -- best regards, randy kobes
