I have a perl program which works perfectly when I run it from the command line with invocation arguments, but when I try to pass in the invocation arguments via a cgi web form, no output file is created, even though the cgi script works. The last line of the cgi script is: system "/var/www/perl/cgi_classification.pl $outfile $input_sequence $name"; The invocation arguments are all input by the user into the web form. The first bit of my perl script (cgi_classification.pl) is:

open OUTFILE, ">/var/www/data/$ARGV[0]" or die "cannot....";

I have made sure that the permissions for the data directory where I want to put the outfile are rwx for user, group and owner, and it works from the command line, so I'm assuming it's a security issue from web forms. What can I do to solve it?

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