Environment (don't laugh, if I could change I would)...

Overview...

A require 'fileX.pl' statement only seems to work when run from the command line. Not when run as a CGI through the SunOneWebServer. (when run as a CGI it seems to cause the termination of my CGI script?)

Details...

I have a simple procedure that just returns an array of files in a directory and displays them ($cgi is a CGI object that is visable by this proc)

sub getVcolFileNames{
    my @vcolFileArray;
    opendir DH, $vcol_dir or die "Cannot open $vcol_dir: ($!)\n";
    foreach $file (readdir DH) {
        next unless $file =~ /\.vcol$/;
        push @vcolFileArray, $file;
        print $cgi->p("$file");
    }
    closedir DH;
    return @vcolFileArray;
}

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If I put this code in my main CGI file it is executed perfectly and the file names are printed to the web browser.

However, if I put the code in a separate file and then use...

require 'vcol-utils.pl'

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... to suck in the subprocedure and then call it from my CGI, the CGI is not processed any further than the require statement. But... if I execute the CGI from the command line it works fine and the subprocedure (from the require file) is called and executed normally.

I have the following at the top of my CGI...

use CGI;
$cgi = new CGI;
use lib('.');
print $cgi->h1("Test1");
require 'vcol-utils.pl';
print $cgi->h1("Test2");

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... the word "Test2" is never displayed when run as a CGI but the word "Test1" is??

Any pointers/views/help on this?

M

In reply to require fails in CGI by heezy

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