I have a script 
#!/Perl/bin/perl

use CGI;


$tracking = new CGI;

print $tracking->header();

print $tracking->start_html();

opendir(TRACKING, "R:\\");

@test = readdir TRACKING;

print @test;

print $tracking->end_html;

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its very basic.... and when I call this opendir in console mode it works.. but in CGI mode it fails... So my thought was ... the webserver doesn't know what the R:\ drive is .. it can only open files in the \htdocs folder of apache or .. \cgi-bin..... is that correct? or is there a way around it. I don't want to move the data... because it needs to be where it is... I'm just trying to build a web interface to it.

In reply to using opendir in CGI by Grygonos

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