Hi, I have written a cgi page which uploads files and processes them successfully using localhost. The following is the code for the page asking user to select file to upload 
 <FORM ACTION="http://....etc/upload.cgi" METHOD="post"  
 ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">
 File to upload: <INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="data">
 Your email address: <INPUT TYPE=text" NAME="email_address";
 <INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="Submit" VALUE="Submit Form">
 </FORM>

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when i call the upload.cgi get a 500 internal error 
 use CGI;
open (TEST, ">data_file");
 $query = new CGI;

$in_file=$query->param("data");
open (FHtest, "<$in_file");
while (<FHtest>) {
print TEST $_;
}
 print $query->header ( );                           
 print <<end_TEST;    
<html><head><title>Checking Details</title>
</head>  other stuff
 </html>
end_TEST

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Any suggesstion to why this works on localhost but not on the main web? Thanks

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