System

[Chris Radcliff]

~sdpm~
Joel,

When making a system() call (or similar), you need to specify the 
filename to execute, not a URL. A URL like 
http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/x.pl is for network access, but it gets 
translated by Apache into a system filename like 
/www/mysite/cgi-bin/x.pl, where /www/mysite/cgi-bin is set as an 
"Alias" to http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin.

It's the latter you want to use from your system() call. So, if x.pl is 
found there, a system() call would look like this:

system("/www/mysite/cgi-bin/x.pl");

Note that there are lots of other caveats to using system() in this 
manner, but you can cross those bridges when you come to them.

Cheers,
~chris

On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 12:37  PM, Joel Fentin wrote:
> I want it to execute x.pl and return to the calling script passing no
> values.
>


~sdpm~

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