Fellow Monasterians,

I feel like this is my first day writing Perl. Doing something I've done a million times, writing a text file, but getting a "No such file or directory" error.

my $path ="http://www.domain.com/WysiwygPro/content.txt";

open (DATA, ">$path") or die "can't write content.txt to $path, error:
+ $!";
   print DATA $content; 
close (DATA);

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Returns error:

can't write content.txt to http://www.domain.com/WysiwygPro/content.tx
+t, error: No such file or directory at editortest.pl line 44

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The directory is indeed there and chmodded to 755. However, when I change the path to relative:

my $path ="../WysiwygPro/content.txt";

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..all is fine.

Why would I be getting the error with the absolute? What incredibly elementary thing am I missing? TIA

UPDATE: Wow! I get it. Unix paths != HTTP paths, except in instances like "../foo". Thank you good monks.


—Brad
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." G. K. Chesterton

In reply to Write file using full path returns error by bradcathey

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