Sorry in advance if this question is so elementary. I did look through dozens of old questions and couldn't find the answer.

This script works fine when I run it from the command line: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$user_name = "test_dir";
mkdir ("$user_name",0777) || die "cannot mkdir : $!";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "did it make the directory?  \n";

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But when you hit it through a web brwoser it gives you a 500 internal server error. I'm sure I'm missing something simple... but I sure can't figure it out.

Ashley

ashleyscottmeyers@hotmail.com

In reply to mkdir through a web interface by Anonymous Monk

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