[CMI.PM] cgi-lib.pl "not found in @INC"???

[Daniel S. Lewart]

Mitch, et al,

> Hi -- It's feast or famine, Perlmongers!

Mmmmm ... Perl feast!

> Having some "require" trouble that seems to think I want a module, not just
> one file.

> This code:

> #!/usr/bin/perl -w

> use strict;

> use HTML::Calendar::Simple;
> use HTML::CalendarMonthSimple;

> my $usingcgi = ($ENV{"HTTP_USER_AGENT"} ne "");
> if ($usingcgi) {
>         require "cgi-bin.pl";
> }

Gack!  Catch up with the rest of the world and replace these with:
	use CGI qw/:standard/;

> if ($usingcgi) {
> #       &ReadParse;
> }

> Produces this error in /var/log/httpd/error_log:
> [Thu Apr 21 18:21:00 2005] [error] [client 69.212.106.31] Can't locate
> cgi-bin.pl in @INC (@INC contains:
 > ...

> Why does it think I want to use a module here, instead of just using the
> local cgi-bin.pl file?

Two reasons:
   1) The current directory (".") is not part of @INC.
   2) Modules do not belong in a cgi-bin directory

Cheers,
Dan
http://cmi.pm.org/