turbojimmy
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This is a long shot but I don't know who to ask this. I figure there have to be some Perl-types among us.
I'm running a canned software package on a Windows server that allows me to create classified ads on a web site I built for my uncle. He wants to list his rebuildable wrecks on his site. It's really a collection of Perl scripts that provide a GUI-based add/delete functionality. The software works fine on my "test" environment, which a Windows server at home. Scripts execute fine and have write permission to modify the ad templates.
Now I need to move the application to the production environment which is Earthlink-hosted Windows-based space. They only allow the execution of scripts in the /cgi-bin directory and you can only write to the /data directory. This is going to require quite a bit of tweaking of the scripts, but that's okay. My problem is that no matter what I tell the scripts, it treats the /cgi-bin directory as the root. So when I tell it to modify /data/thisfile.txt it tries to modify /cgi-bin/data/thisfile.txt (which it can't do because the cgi-bin directory does not have write permission). I tried telling it to modify '../data/thisfile.txt' (hoping the '../" would bump it up to the root), but it still appends the '../data/thisfile.txt' to the /cgi-bin so it winds up trying to modify '/cgi-bin/..data/thisfile.txt' and I get a bad argument error.
So, how do you get a script that's executed in the webroot/cgi-bin directory to go "up and out" to write to a webroot/data directory. I hope this makes sense....I know what I need it to do but I'm not familiar enough with Perl to make it happen.
A second alternative is to ditch the Windows environment and host it in a Unix environment where I can set my own permissons.
TIA,
Jim
I'm running a canned software package on a Windows server that allows me to create classified ads on a web site I built for my uncle. He wants to list his rebuildable wrecks on his site. It's really a collection of Perl scripts that provide a GUI-based add/delete functionality. The software works fine on my "test" environment, which a Windows server at home. Scripts execute fine and have write permission to modify the ad templates.
Now I need to move the application to the production environment which is Earthlink-hosted Windows-based space. They only allow the execution of scripts in the /cgi-bin directory and you can only write to the /data directory. This is going to require quite a bit of tweaking of the scripts, but that's okay. My problem is that no matter what I tell the scripts, it treats the /cgi-bin directory as the root. So when I tell it to modify /data/thisfile.txt it tries to modify /cgi-bin/data/thisfile.txt (which it can't do because the cgi-bin directory does not have write permission). I tried telling it to modify '../data/thisfile.txt' (hoping the '../" would bump it up to the root), but it still appends the '../data/thisfile.txt' to the /cgi-bin so it winds up trying to modify '/cgi-bin/..data/thisfile.txt' and I get a bad argument error.
So, how do you get a script that's executed in the webroot/cgi-bin directory to go "up and out" to write to a webroot/data directory. I hope this makes sense....I know what I need it to do but I'm not familiar enough with Perl to make it happen.
A second alternative is to ditch the Windows environment and host it in a Unix environment where I can set my own permissons.
TIA,
Jim
