I cant figure out how to get perl to do this I am making a directory and then putting a file in it. I can do that due to much help from a few of you.

But now when I try to make the files and the directories world readable ( because it is for the web ) and let the program write the redirect file this happens
Content-type: text/html 
Software error:
Permission denied at validate_school_data.cgi line 307. 
For help, please send mail to the webmaster

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am I chmod-ing the files and directories to the wrong thing. And if so what should it be set to and is there data on this elsewhere? Below is the culprit code Ln 307 is where it tries to write the redirect file. 
      #take school name and replace spaces with underlines
      $dir =~ s/ /_/g;
      
      mkdir( "$topdir/$dir" ,0 ) or die "Couldn't mkdir $topdir/$dir: 
+$!";

      $mode = 0755;   
      chmod( $mode, '$topdir/$dir');       

      #create redirect page for that directory
   
      my $outputpage;      

      open(TEMPLATE, "default_redirect.html") or 
      die "can't open redirect page";
   
      local($/) = undef; 
   
      $outputpage = <TEMPLATE>;    
      close(TEMPLATE);

      $outputpage =~ s/\$name/$name/g;
      
      open( REDIRECT, ">$topdir/$dir/index.html" ) or die "$!";

      print REDIRECT $outputpage; 
      
      close REDIRECT;

      chmod $mode, '$topdir/$dir/index.html';

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