writing .txt files outside of CGI directory (apache/win98se) ???

[kickinpretty]

Hi all

i need some help with this its driving me mad...basically i have a cgi that writes a new file when activated. the cgi is as follows...

#!C:\Program Files\Abria Merlin\Perl\bin\perl

require "subparseform.lib";
&Parse_Form;

$n1 = $formdata{'n1'};

@New = ("n1=$n1"

open (LOG, ">\test1.txt&quot || &ErrorMessage;
print LOG "@New";
close (LOG);


print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Status=Success - You are now a registered user";

sub ErrorMessage {
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Status=Connection Failed Please Check the path to the text File";
exit;
}

This works fine by writing a text file inside the cgi-bin, if i change the following line...

open (LOG, ">\test1.txt&quot || &ErrorMessage;

to...

open (LOG, ">\\test1.txt&quot || &ErrorMessage;

It writes a file at C:\ this works fine to, but what i want to do is write a file to a directory called \site the full path to this is...

C:\Program Files\Abria Merlin\Apache\htdocs\site\test1.txt

I have tried every combination of file paths and even tried absolute file paths with no joy.

WHAT AM I DOING WRONG????????

 

[hmerrill]

Does your open look like

open(LOG, ">C:\Program Files\Abria Merlin\Apache\htdocs\site\test1.txt&quot || &ErrorMessage;

???

What error message(s) are you getting?

Not sure about Windows, but on *nix, you need to ensure that the user("apache" or "nobody" or ???) running the webserver has permission to write to the target directory - and that may(?) require certain permissions for each directory above the target directory.

Also, I just did 'perldoc perl' at a command prompt and then did a search(using the forward slash "/&quot for "windows" and found that there is a perldoc for Windows. At a command prompt, do

perldoc perlwin32

and that will provide some notes on using Perl on Windows. I wouldn't be surprised if there was info in there about path and filenames on Windows.

HTH. Hardy Merrill

 

[kickinpretty]

Hi thanx for the reply...

The problem was the path should have had forward slashes "/"instead of backward slashes..."\"

its working sweet as now

 

[hmerrill]

How did you figure that out? I just looked through the 'perldoc perlwin32' and I didn't see anything like that - I couldn't really find anything on windows paths needing the directories separated by *forward* slashes. I'm confused ;-) Hardy Merrill

 

[danielhozac]

Forward slashes or \\, since \ just escapes the character following it. //Daniel

 

[MaoZeDOng]

How did you set the permmisions so that the CGI could write to a file, I am having trouble with this one!
I am running Apache on Windows 2000.

thanks.