The problem is, that what you think is your "current directory", is likely not.

Your webserver likely runs your script from the root directory (/), or within a chroot jail. Filenames in Perl are not URLs, so your attempt of using that to access your script was wrong. Likely you will need something like the following in your CGI script:

use File::Basename;
use File::Spec;
use Cwd;

my $base_dir = File::Spec->rel2abs(dirname $0);
chdir $base_dir
  or die "Couldn't set '$base_dir' as working directory: $!";

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You should not be storing such configuration files under your cgi-bin directory - configuration data and other files should all reside in a directory outside of the document root. You should read up on how filenames, URLs and Perl work together.

In reply to Re: Empty/Missing/Bad Path to GMTime file by Corion
in thread Empty/Missing/Bad Path to GMTime file by jponte

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