In my recent Perl class we constructed a Perl/CGI script that read a list of produce items from a text file, then used those items to make a web order form. This code ran perfectly on the class Unix server.

Now I've returned home and I uploaded the same script and the same text file to my website's server. Now when I run the script it fails with an error:

Error opening produce_items.txt! : No such file or directory at /html/cgi/eproduce.cgi line 24.

First of all, here's the code I'm using: 

#===== Open the file containing our list of produce
$filename = "produce_items.txt";
open(PRODUCE, $filename) || die "Error opening $filename! : $!\n ";

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Someone suggested trying the full pathname, so I amended the code as follows: 

#===== Open the file containing our list of produce
$current_directory = $ENV{PWD};
$filename = "$current_directory" . "/" . "produce_items.txt";
open(PRODUCE, $filename) || die "Error opening $filename! : $!\n ";

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This fails with the same error (well, slightly different... it says "/produce_items.txt" instead of "produce_items.txt").

The text file is in the same directory as the cgi file, by the way.

I know this is a CGI problem, not a Perl problem, but perhaps someone more experienced than I can see what I'm doing wrong?

Many thanks!

Charles Thomas
Madison, WI

In reply to Slightly OT: Perl and CGI - reading a file by C_T

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