"he crazy thing is that it works via command line. Just doesn't serve up the page."

Sounds like you are forgetting to print the content header:

print header();
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Be sure that is the first thing you print to STDOUT. If that is not the problem, then the next item is proper paths. Your script runs as a different user when requested as a CGI script, so you have to use full paths to the files you are trying to access.

Next time, be sure and give us the error message as well. :)

jeffa

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