I know I could use a link to the file like "../info.txt" but it doesn't open the file, unless the path is absolute to the file.

Where did you get that idea? Of course you can use . and .. directories in a path to a file for opening.

Since you don't state where the files' directory is relative to the cgi-bin directory, it is difficult to give very precise advice. However, in general, use ../ to go up one level in the directory hierarchy and the exact directory name to go down.

Say you have a directory structure like this:

|--apache2--|---cgi-bin
            |
            |---htdocs
            |
            |---images

or whatever. To access a file from the htdocs directory, starting at the cgi-bin directory, you would specify: '../htdocs/info.txt'. Substituted back into your script: 

use warnings;
use strict;

$0 =~ '(.*[\\\/])\w+\.\w+$';
my $curr_dir = $1 || "./";

# Note, you would be much better off with
# use Cwd;
# and 
# my $curr_dir = cwd();

$info_file =  $curr_dir . '../htdocs/info.txt';

open my $fh, '<', $info_file or die "Could not open file, $!";
while (my $line = <$fh>){
    #process line
}

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