Mark Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: File write/read problem
> Mark,
>
> Leave the permissions on httpd.conf as they are, in case you're tempted
> to change them. :-) After yo
elp,
Mark
- Original Message -
From: "Paul Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: File write/read problem
> Mark,
>
> Leave the permissio
ember 25, 2003, at 10:08 AM, Mark Wheeler wrote:
In just checked the httpd.conf file and, yes, the user/group is set to
www/www. So I need to change it to what?
Mark
- Original Message -
From: "Paul Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Delacour" <[EMAIL
On Thursday, Sep 25, 2003, at 14:25 Etc/GMT, Ken Williams wrote:
On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 12:33 AM, Greenhalgh David wrote:
On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 20:05 Etc/GMT, Ken Williams wrote:
Nope. When you open for reading ("<"), it won't be auto-created.
It will when you open for w
: Thursday, September 25, 2003 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: File write/read problem
> On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 10:44 PM,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > OK, that makes perfect sense, but it is not working here. Here is a
> > basic script which, when run, should create a n
On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 12:33 AM, Greenhalgh David wrote:
On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 20:05 Etc/GMT, Ken Williams wrote:
Nope. When you open for reading ("<"), it won't be auto-created. It
will when you open for writing or appending (">" or ">>").
-Ken
Not necessarily on every
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 10:44 PM,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, that makes perfect sense, but it is not working here. Here is a
basic script which, when run, should create a new file called
example.txt because it is not there when the open statement is used.
#!/usr/bin/perl
print
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 10:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Now that sounds like that could be the overarching problem. It would
also explain (I
thingk) why I can't change the permissions of any of those directories
with an ftp client.
So if I change the ownership of the cgi-bin (an
Now that sounds like that could be the overarching problem. It would also explain (I
thingk) why I can't change the permissions of any of those directories with an ftp
client.
So if I change the ownership of the cgi-bin (and all the folders associated with the
server)
to www:www, then I should
Ok, I'll make a new directory inside the cgi-bin, and set it to 777, and try to write
to that. A
side note, though. I should be able to write directly to the cgi-bin, though, right? I
tried to
set the cgi-bin directory to 777, and was not able to. I received an error, so
something
else is not
On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 20:05 Etc/GMT, Ken Williams wrote:
Nope. When you open for reading ("<"), it won't be auto-created. It
will when you open for writing or appending (">" or ">>").
-Ken
Not necessarily on every Mac. The same thing happens to me here,
opening a file for writing
>As you've said, it should create the file in the same directory, in
>this case the cgi-bin, as the script (which is called write.cgi). I run
>the call the script from the browser and the script runs fine, except,
>no file is created. I added a "|| die ($!)" at the file open call and
>add the CGI::
Hi Mark,
you wrote...
> Permission denied at /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/write.cgi
>
> All the permissions for each of these directories are 755. Something is
> a miss. So what can I do?! I'm very confused.
There's your problem. 755 will not allow the "www" user (or whatever
you'
OK, that makes perfect sense, but it is not working here. Here is a
basic script which, when run, should create a new file called
example.txt because it is not there when the open statement is used.
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Creating new file...";
my $newtext
At 11:54 am -0700 24/9/03, Mark Wheeler wrote:
.. I was under the impression that when I used the "<" or ">" or
">>" in an open command i.e.:
open (DATA, "< example.txt");
that it would creat the file if it wasn't there (with the appropriate
[default?] permissions...at least that's what happens
At 7:57 am -0700 24/9/03, Mark Wheeler wrote:
Yes, I am running this as a cgi. I called it from a web browser. IE 6 on a
PC. Yes, the script has no Mac line endings. I wrote it on a PC using a text
editor. I've done nothing different than I have for all my other scripts. I
just don't understand. He
On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 01:54 PM, Mark Wheeler wrote:
2. And here's the rub for the whole deal, I think (and my lack of
programming skill). When I try to open the file, and it doesn't exist,
I get
the error of can't open a file it can't find. BUT I was under the
impression
that when
OK, here's the latest. I put in the CGI::CARP...and got my errors to the
screen. On both the read and write to the file (example.txt) if the file
exists and the permissions are sett correctly, for example.txt, everything
works great. BUT two things I noticed:
1. When I ftp a file to the cgi-bin, f
At 07:57 -0700 9/24/03, Mark Wheeler wrote:
>Yes, I am running this as a cgi. I called it from a web browser. IE 6 on a
>PC. Yes, the script has no Mac line endings. I wrote it on a PC using a text
>editor.
Peecee's use a CR/LF pair for line ends.
If you uploaded it in ASCII mode with ftp it shou
I can glean
from there.
Thanks,
Mark
- Original Message -
From: "Adam Witney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: File write/read problem
>
> Ah, good point! :-) alth
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From: "Hannes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: File write/read problem
> On 9/24/03 7:57 AM, "Mark Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
At 06:37 -0700 9/24/03, Mark Wheeler wrote:
>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
>use strict;
>print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
>print "The contents of the file: ";
>open (DATA, "example.txt") || die ("Could not open file $!");
>my @text = ;
>print @text;
>close (DATA);
>exit;
If you're calling the script fro
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Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: File write/read problem
> On 9/24/03 6:37 AM, "Mark Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
&g
On 9/24/03 6:37 AM, "Mark Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is my first post to this group. Please forgive me if this is the wrong
> group for this question.
>
> I've been coding for a short time (a year or so) and love it. I've been
> using other hosts for my scripts, and am no
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