What to do when files is not found?

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

This code from a perl cgi script

open(FH,"../top.html") || die "couldn't open file $!\n";
   my @html=<FH>;
   close(FH);
   print @html;
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is getting this error:
Software error: couldn't open file No such file or directory
I have tried targetting it in different directories, using whole path (home/mysite/www/)and clipped path. Tried chmoding it 744, 777 to no avail. Made sure it had correct content-type header tag.
Any advice on what do?
TIA
jg

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Re: What to do when files is not found? by blakem (Monsignor) on Sep 08, 2001 at 05:14 UTC
Your "whole path" needs a leading slash, ala `/home/mysite/www/top.html` [download] -Blake	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: What to do when files is not found? by jerrygarciuh (Curate) on Sep 08, 2001 at 06:24 UTC
Thank you sir, that did it!	[reply]
Re: What to do when files is not found? by Chmrr (Vicar) on Sep 08, 2001 at 05:18 UTC
It's possible that you're having the same problem as this one here. The solution turned out to be that the server was running in a chrooted environment. That's all that pops to mind that you've not tried yet. perl -e 'print "I love $^X$\"$]!$/"#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'	[reply]