> Ron Goral wrote: > > Greetings - > > > > I am having trouble locating and using modules that are not in the > > current directory of a cgi script. For this test, I know the > > directory structure looks like this: > > > > cgi-bin/test/test.cgi > > cgi-bin/lib/DGStanLib.pm > > From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:39 AM > To: 'Ron Goral'; Perl Beginners > Subject: RE: Trying to locate module in parallel directory > > > > Why not the straightforward: > > use FindBin; > use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib"; > > (lifted directly from the FindBin docs) > > Or why not allow the sysadmin to place the libs wherever he wants > and use a > SetEnv directive in the web server config to pass PERL5LIB to the CGI > scripts and forego use lib altogether? >
This is obviously a case of me trying to make this too complex. Thank you Bob for showing me that simpler is always better. My "ass"umption was that $FindBin::Bin was going to locate a directory BELOW cgi-bin/test. The straight forward method worked just fine. Thank you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
