require
Shaughnessy, Ian
Ian_Shaughnessy at NAI.com
Wed Aug 15 05:36:19 CDT 2001
What webserver are you running? And generally crawling around doesnt make a
webserver too happy.. it runs as the user nobody (I'm assuming), so if it
tries to enter a directory that does not have rwxr-xr-x permissions, it
cant. Try this:
su nobody
cd /www/karic/clientone
./coolapp.cgi
Check the output. I'm pretty sure youre going to see perl spit back a
permissions problem. This is just a handy way of debugging a cgi script
too, heh, you dont know how many times I've had a script not work because of
a permissions problem that I didnt realize until I executed it as manually
as user nobody (or whatever user the webserver runs as).
Also, in case you havent used require much... make sure the require'd file
ends with a '1;'. Otherwise require dumps to an error (has to do with
return values). I think its silly, but I guess I'm not Alan Cox. ;)
-Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: Kari Chisholm
To: Portland Perl Mongers
Sent: 8/14/01 5:21 PM
Subject: require
Howdy all--
This may be a moron question, but I can't seem to get it to work.
I've got two CGI's
http://www.clientone.com/coolapp.cgi
http://www.clienttwo.com/coolapp.cgi
that really live on my server here
/www/karic/clientone/coolapp.cgi
/www/karic/clienttwo/coolapp.cgi
I want each of them to read in subroutines and settings from a single
place
/www/karic/mystuff/global.cgi
So, in each of those two cgi's I've got this line
require ("/www/karic/mystuff/global.cgi");
I can't find any documentation that says I can crawl around my file
server like
this using require, but nothing that says I can't either.
Nonetheless, I'm getting a server error. Is this a problem with my
perl, or
with my server?
Any thoughts?
-kari.
p.s. I couldn't get it to work with DO or USE either, though I know much
less
about those.
TIMTOWTDI
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