It works on command line

$ ./test.cgi name=testname

output below

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"> <head> <title>test</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> </head> <body>

Parameters


name=testname

$ cat dbase.txt

Name:testname,Surname:

doesn't work when going thru browser

file permission = ls -l dbase.txt -rwxrwxrwx 1 nathan nathan 23 Sep 27 12:33 dbase.txt

$ cat test.cgi 

#!/usr/bin/perl
# test.cgi


use CGI qw /:standard/;
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;

my $db='/var/www/example/cgi-bin/dbase.txt';

print header,start_html('test');

print h3("Parameters");

my $name = param("name");
my $sname = param("sname");

open (FILE, ">>$db") or print STDERR "[$0] Could not open file! $!";
print (FILE "Name:$name,Surname:$sname\n");
close (FILE);

print "<br>name=$name.. surname=$sname>br>";

print end_html;

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