Opening documents in CGI

cyates has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi I'm just starting to use CGI and HTML form data to run scripts. If you're running a Perl script with HTML Post data on a website, where does Perl look to open documents within the code? In other words, is it looking for a document saved within your website database or your local files? I haven't experimented with anything yet, just want to know

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Re: Opening documents in CGI (RTM) by Anonymous Monk on Jul 23, 2013 at 01:28 UTC
I'm pretty sure pretty much every cgi tutorial covers this, its current working directory See Tutorials -> CGI Programming -> CGI Help Guide , Troubleshooting Perl CGI scripts, DebugCGI ,	[reply]
Re: Opening documents in CGI by Anonymous Monk on Jul 23, 2013 at 05:50 UTC
Hi If you are using a web server, it will probably want you to put the web pages in a particular place, which it will tell you in the docs. J.C.	[reply]