/home/test/10 is not inside my DocumentRoot which is /home/web so it gives me a Permission denied error.
That's an incorrect analysis. CGI scripts can do whatever the user the scripts are run as can. E.g.: 

use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);

print header();
print start_html(-title=>"Nasty");
open(FOO, "<", "/etc/passwd")
        or die "Couldn't open\n";
print <FOO>;
close(FOO);

print end_html();

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The above prints out my passwd file, albeit with dodgy line endings, but that's irrelevant. The reason it can do this is because my webserver user has read access to the passwd file. The problem you're most likely facing is that www can't write to /home/test. Try copying the file first to test this. Hint: you could use the File::Copy module, which is in core.


davis
It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.
Update: Fixed typo.

In reply to Re: Apache & Perl CGI Directory Permissions by davis
in thread Apache & Perl CGI Directory Permissions by datannen

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