Accessing Files In Another Directory

[iaresean]

Help!

I have written a perl cgi script, but in order for the script to work it needs to be able to access files in the /root directory and other various directory's on my server. I do have root permissions on the server. But I do not know how to tell the program to fetch the specific file. It keeps on searching for the file from the cgi-bin directory. So say for example i needed to access /var/info.txt it will search for .../cgi-bin/var/info.txt and not /var/info.txt

Thanks for all your time and effort you put into helping me, a very inexperienced beginner.

 

[duncdude]

the ~ (tilde) gets back to the root in UNIX

cd ~

or to a folder from the root

cd ~/cgi-bin/var/

cheers
Duncan

 

[philote]

Try chdir to change to the directory you need:

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/func/chdir.html

 

[ChrisHunt]

Post a snippet of your code - "/var/info.txt" (with the leading slash) should be relative to the root. "var/info.txt" will be relative to the current directory.

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[icrf]

Is the webserver chrooting CGI?

________________________________________
Andrew - Perl Monkey

 

[iaresean]

Thanks for all your input. The answer was all in sudo. I had to use sudo in order to give my web page root permissions so that it was able to view any directory and access any file. This is a bit dangerous on the security side of things though. So I will have to tread with care.