I have to create a directory structure of HTML redirects. I am sure there are many much more efficent ways of doing this but we do not have control of the server and this is what they want. Each redirect points to a script on another site.

This said the resulting directory structure will be a directory with a name and the index.html file that points to the CGI Script. The problem is when I try to create the directories and then chmod them the file permissions are not set; and I get this error :

No such file or directory
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I am trying for now to set the directory to ./ since it makes for easier testing but eventually it will go to another directory elsewhere. Thus I made it so that it takes in "directory path" of some sort and the name of the Directory. So what you should get is "path_from_root/directory_name" in my default case I get ./directory name. It makes the directory fine, it writes the Redirect fine but the permissions that are set will not let me read or write to the directory ( and I am chmodding to 755 ). Here is the code any ideas why it is not chmodding correctly?<\p>

sub make_alias( $ )
{
    my $self = shift;
    
    my $name = $_[0];
    my $id   = $_[1];

    my $alias_data      = "alias.db";

    my $alias_directory = "./";
        
    print "$name,$id \n";
    
    #create directory for redirect to go into
    
    my $path = $alias_directory . $name;
    
    my $mode = "0755";
    
    print "path = $path \n"; 
    
    mkdir $path, $mode;
    
    print "x = $! , $path \n";
    
    chmod( $mode, $path );
    
    
    #add redirect file 
    
    my $redirect = new Redirect();
    
    $redirect->redirect_filename(  $path . "\/index.html" );
    $redirect->redirect_link(      "http://www.nowhere.com/cgi/school_
+connection.cgi?id=$_[1]" );
    $redirect->displayed_link(     "" );
    $redirect->redirect_template( "redirect_template.html" );
    $redirect->redirect_delay( "0" );
    $redirect->create_redirect;
    $redirect->save_redirect or die $!;

    print "After redirect saved \n";
    
    #add to database
    


    my $db = new Database();

    $db->file($alias_data);
    $db->delimiter("|");

    $db->execute( "insert", "Name", $name, "ID", $id );
                        
    return 1;
        
    

}
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