Navigating directory structure

[RPrinceton]

Hi,
I have a directory tree structured as follows:
public_html
cgi-bin
data
In my Perl script I have used chdir("../" which seems to get to get me to the public_html directory. I want to navigate to directory /public_html/data. I have tried using chdir("/data" but it still seems to be positioned on the public_html directory. What am I doing wrong? Please advise. Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Randall Princeton

 

[siberian]

chdir uses sytem paths, not web root paths.

So when you say 'chdir("/data&quot' its trying to change to your operating system root directory and then into the data directory that does not exist there.

Better to go

chdir("~user/public_html/data"
or
chdir("../data/"
or programmatically
my $docroot = "~user/public_html/";
chdir("$docroot/data/"