No clue where the error is but the files are NOT uploading. Right now the text at the bottom doesn't even show up, it only shows up if I remove the only "or die" statement I have which is kinda confusing. My guess is the directory isn't opening but I'm not getting errors and the die isn't working.

use warnings;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use POSIX;


print header, start_html('upload form');

print start_form(), table(
Tr(
    td("File: "),
    td(filefield(-name=>'upload',
                -size=>50,
                -maxlength=>80),
    ),
    ),
Tr(
    td(),
    td(submit('button','submit'),
)
)
),
end_form(),
hr;

if (param()) {
my $upload =  param('upload');

    open (OUTFILE,">>/home/myname/public_html/upload") or die "cannot 
+open
directory for writing $!";
    while ($bytesread=read($upload,$buffer,1024)) {
       print OUTFILE $buffer;
       print "the thing is open";
    }

print "The file should be uploaded if everything went right, which it
probably didn't.\n";
}
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