-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Statton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 4/25/2005 8:19 PM
To: TapasranjanMohapatra
Cc: beginners-cgi@perl.org
Subject: Re: PATH problem
>
> All,
> My script goes like this...
> --------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> $cmd = "cat file_one";
> $content = qx!$cmd!;
> print "$content";
> --------------------------------------
> I have a case where file_one is not in the same directory. So I give the abso
> lute path of file_one
> in place of file_one.
> When run it using perl on command line I get the contents of file printed cor
> rectly.
>
> But when accessed through browser (cgi-bin), I get nothing printed.
>
> I thought it might be path problem , but it is not. Because when the file is
> in same directory,
> it prints the content of the file.
>
> Can anybody let me know where I am going wrong?
> TIA
> tapas
>
First: Check permissions. Can the webserver process (probably running
as a de-privileged user) read that file?
Second: Is your webserver running in a chroot(2)ed environment, such that
/path/to/file_one is not valid from within its context?
Could you give me some idea how to know if it is chroot(ed). Because the files
have al the permissions for everyone (777).
Thanks
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