How do I add a directory to my include path (@INC) at runtime?
    Here are the suggested ways of modifying your include path:

        the PERLLIB environment variable
        the PERL5LIB environment variable
        the perl -Idir command line flag
        the use lib pragma, as in
            use lib "$ENV{HOME}/myown_perllib";

    The latter is particularly useful because it knows about machine
    dependent architectures. The lib.pm pragmatic module was first included
    with the 5.002 release of Perl.

One could also do something like this (but it is less pretty):



BEGIN {
  unshift @INC, '/my/path';
}
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That is also in perlfaq8

You need to add the following line above your requires: use lib qw( /path/to/your/cgi-bin ); and that will fix everything.

I added :

use lib qw(/webroot/d/e/depri001/cgi-bin);

but it still doesn't work. Here's what AdminPro says now:

Can't locate config.cgi in @INC (@INC contains: /webroot/d/e/depri001/cgi-bin /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) line 14.

The cgi-bin path appears in the @INC but it still isn't finding the config.cgi. Thanks for the try.

Are you absolutely sure you added what 'pwd' says your directory is?

Also, have you tried my other suggestion of running the script from somewhere other than your cgi-bin? Like, your home directory.

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Try FindBin, it will create the absolute path to the directory where the script is run, and make it accessible in the variable $FindBin::Bin. Eg:

#! /usr/bin/perl
use FindBin;
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../moduledir";
use My::Module;

my $lister = My::Module->new();
.
.
.
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Where moduledir is where I place my own code (big surprise :). This solved similar problems for me.

Hope this helps!

I couldn't make this work, due to my own inadequacies as a Perl programmer, but it did get me to thinking. I went to the CGI Resource site and downloaded a freeware script called ServerCheck by Virtual Solutions. It showed me that the path I had been using was incorrect. Whether it was reported wrong, or I simply wrote it down wrong, is unknown, but as soon as I corrected it in Config.sys, the script worked. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. You've saved my scalp once again. I was about to start pulling my hair out. :)

ls -l test_lib.pl
-rw-------    1 root     root           62 Oct  7 11:30 test_lib.pl

# and heres the script that includes it:
#!/usr/bin/perl

require 'test_lib.pl';
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So you may want to look at permissions, ownership of your required files.