IIS doesn't like my require statement

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

Hi fellow monks,

I've got a site which I'm trying to use on two different platforms: Win2000/IIS and Linux/Apache.
Everything succeeds, except for one thing:
require "../config.pl";
What doesn't work is that the IIS can't find the config.pl-file, even though it's got '.' in it's @INC.
The simplest solution would off course be to use an absolute path, but the thing is that I want the config-file to tell me what the abs. path is, not define it in multiple files.

So it looks like IIS-perl (activeperl v5.8) doesn't like the '../'.
Okay, so the solution:

$temp = $ENV{'PATH_TRANSLATED'}; # get full path
$temp =~ s|\\|/|g; # convert \ to / (necessary if win)
$temp =~ s/\/([^\/]*)\/([^\/]*)$//; # strip the last two parts (filena
+me and current folder) to get to '../'
push(@INC, $temp); # now it's got the right folder
require "config.pl"; # so the '../' isn't needed
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But I'm 100% sure there are many better things to do instead of this.
Would someone be so kind to help me with this issue?

Thanx in advance, Paul

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Re: IIS doesn't like my require statement by artist (Parson) on Jan 28, 2003 at 04:32 UTC
I found that there is a bug in IIS-Perl that CGI Scripts Must Use Full Directory Path and explained here too.. Artist	[reply]
Re: Re: IIS doesn't like my require statement by frinky (Novice) on Jan 28, 2003 at 04:49 UTC
WAAH! Once again: microsoft sucks! Checking the links you gave me, I noticed from the support.microsoft-page that they forgot to do some work: STATUS Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Internet Information Server version 1.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here as it becomes available. Last Reviewed: 5/1/1999 So after 4 years they still haven't fixed it???	[reply]
Re^3: IIS doesn't like my require statement by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 28, 2003 at 12:18 UTC
"Hey, use ASP(\.NET)? and you wouldn't have such problems, eh?" (Ie why would they care about a competing technology.) Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re: IIS doesn't like my require statement by Wysardry (Pilgrim) on Jan 28, 2003 at 04:51 UTC
That bug is in IIS version 1.0 (circa 1999) though. Surely it was fixed in later versions? Hmmm, I suppose this is Microshaft we're talking about though.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: IIS doesn't like my require statement by ibanix (Hermit) on Jan 28, 2003 at 05:14 UTC
Yeah, they had to have fixed it by now. I still want to hear what happens if you try '\' instead of '/'. ibanix `$ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: IIS doesn't like my require statement by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 28, 2003 at 12:04 UTC
Re: IIS doesn't like my require statement by ibanix (Hermit) on Jan 28, 2003 at 04:11 UTC
Considering that Win32 uses "\" as the directory delimeter, have you tried `require "..\config.pl"` ? Update: Right, so as other people have mentioned, that should be `"..\\config.pl"` or `'..\config.pl'`. :-) Cheers, ibanix `$ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: IIS doesn't like my require statement by frinky (Novice) on Jan 28, 2003 at 04:42 UTC
Well, haven't tried it, but one good thing abou IIS is that it has no problems using either 'C:\temp\' or 'C:/temp/' Thanx anyway!	[reply]
Re^2: IIS doesn't like my require statement by Ionizor (Pilgrim) on Jan 28, 2003 at 08:14 UTC
Ack! Using \ instead of / will not work! `"..\configure.pl"` will be interpreted by Perl as `"..`☼`nfigure.pl"`. Double quoted literal paths in Perl are never separated by just "\" even on Win32, even under IIS. Update: I just knew I was going to be corrected. Lesson learned. Never say never. Or at least be very specific. -- Grant me the wisdom to shut my mouth when I don't know what I'm talking about.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re^2: IIS doesn't like my require statement by IlyaM (Parson) on Jan 28, 2003 at 08:51 UTC
You can use both / and \ as a path separator in Perl programs on Win32. The only important thing to remember is that in string literals \ char has special meaning (it is an escape char) and it must be doubled to get single \ char. I.e `# ok my $path = "dir/file.txt"; # not ok my $path = "dir\file.txt"; # ok my $path = "dir\\file.txt"; # also ok - in single quoted strings only sequences \' and \\ are spec +ial my $path = 'dir\file.txt';` [download] Of course it is Win32 specific and it is just easier to always use / as a path separator what is more portable. Or even use File::Spec what is the most portable way to create filepaths from components: `use File::Spec; my $path = File::Spec->catfile(qw(dir file.txt));` [download] Update: Fixed mismatched quotes. Thanks to Ionizor who noticed it. -- Ilya Martynov, ilya@iponweb.net CTO IPonWEB (UK) Ltd Quality Perl Programming and Unix Support UK managed @ offshore prices - http://www.iponweb.net Personal website - http://martynov.org	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: IIS doesn't like my require statement by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on Jan 28, 2003 at 15:38 UTC
I am reminded of something I wrote here last summer... "(Must be related to the twisted thinking of the Dark Side?)" (Re: Active State / IIS write problem)	[reply]