Hello, I have a simple task that I want to do and I am having the worst trouble. All I want to do is open an html file using perl. My code is as follows:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use DBI;
use CGI;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser carpout);
print "opening";

open( HTML, "<../index.htm" ) or die( "Cannot access HTML index.htm");
print "opened";

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I am using this to pass parameters to HTML files. Embedded in the HTML files are variables set up like -myvariable-. After opening the file, reading in all the lines, I replace the -myvariable- with a parameters passed to the CGI script, and print out the page. This works like a charms on a couple of my shared hosting site and it does not work here (a Virtual Private Server where I have full control of my portion of the server). I'm wondering if I have to set Apache parameters that allows me to open files. Thank you for whatever wisdom you can send my way.

In reply to Confusion opening a file by Hammy

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