I have a few different questions that I hope someone can clear up.

An error I am getting from one of my scripts is "/home/everyday/public_html/upload.cgi did not return a true value at /home/everyday/public_html/index.cgi line 66.". Which of the two files should I be looking at to find where the bug is?

Question 2: both the files as seen in the error above require() files at the top of the scripts. When the script says upload.cgi did not return a true value, is it just upload.cgi that errored out or could it be the require("header.cgi"); that's at the top of the script? And when doing line counts in upload.cgi for line 66, is it 66 lines in that file or do I have to count 1 - (first req. file line), count all those lines, then go back to my upload.cgi? I have no idea what line could be wrong because it's requiring() a file.

Last but not least, the following snippet dies 

if (!defined($index_page))
{
    require("header.cgi");
    $main_content = $ENV{"DOCUMENT_ROOT"} . "/upload.cgi";
        #print "test";
        print $index_page;
    require($index_page);    
    exit;
}

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The error is "Compilation failed in require at upload.cgi line 15.". I included a test print statement fir $index_page (which is the one that's failing) and it's printing "home/everyday/public_html/index.cgi" and that file does exist and it works!. So what could be the problem?

Thanks for your help everyone.

In reply to Require files by coldfingertips

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