Hello, I hope this is a simple question for you PERL Guru's...I've been working a script(with lots of help from all of you) that currently does the following:
1. creates a sub-directory
2. writes a .htaccess file in the new dir
3. writes a .htgroup file in the new dir
4. writes a .htpasswd file in the new dir
5. writes a upload.html file in the new dir
6. writes a upload.pl file in the new dir
7. chmods the .pl file 755

the problem that has me scratching my head is, how can I set the script to automatically adjust the $basedir in the cgi script to match the current, newly made, sub-directory?

Here is the part of the script that's driving me mad:
# Create PERL  file...
open(FILE, ">$basedir$q_brieftitle/upload.pl") || &diedebug("$header C
+ould not create file $basedir$q_brieftitle/answerfile: $! . It's poss
+ible that your web server will not let me create files even if I own 
+the directory. If you have chmodded $basedir$q_brieftitle/ to 777 and
+ you are still getting this message, then you will need to create you
+r files by hand. :( $footer");
flock(FILE, 2);
  &get_date;
print FILE <<'EOF';
#!/usr/bin/perl
$basedir = "/path/to/base/dir/";
$allowall = "yes";
$theext = ".gif";
$donepage = "up2.html";
## DO NOT EDIT OR COPY BELOW THIS LINE        ##
use CGI; 
$onnum = 1;

while ($onnum != 11) {
my $req = new CGI; 
my $file = $req->param("FILE$onnum"); 
if ($file ne "") {
my $fileName = $file; 
$fileName =~ s!^.*(\\|\/)!!; 
$newmain = $fileName;
if ($allowall ne "yes") {
if (lc(substr($newmain,length($newmain) - 4,4)) ne $theext){
$filenotgood = "yes";
}
}
if ($filenotgood ne "yes") { 
open (OUTFILE, ">$basedir/$fileName"); 
print "$basedir/$fileName<br>";
while (my $bytesread = read($file, my $buffer, 1024)) { 
print OUTFILE $buffer; 
} 
close (OUTFILE); 
}
}
$onnum++;
}

print "Content-type: text/html\n";
print "Location:$donepage\n\n";";

EOF

close(FILE);

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The EOF leaves the code alone and doesn't crash the main program...but I need to learn a way to make the $basedir the same as the $basedir$q_brieftitle in the above code. Thank you

In reply to Generating a current basedir by koacamper

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