How does Apache invoke the script? mod_perl? CGI? FastCGI? It may simply be a setting in the configuration of one of these within Apache. If you just have a script which only prints those diagnostics and then exits, doing literally nothing else, then you can confirm that the PWD is being set outside the script itself. I would warn() instead of print() for this (so it will appear in the error log) but YMMV:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;

warn "Directory is " . `pwd`;
warn "Contents are \n" . `ls -al`;
exit;

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If that confirms it you might also want to dump %ENV to see what else might be going on.

In reply to Re: Perl - open with Apache by hippo
in thread Perl - open with Apache by djneely

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