mod_perl seems to be using the Apache installation directory as the current working director. This leads to problems when I do stuff like opendir(DIR, "."). I can't find any cure for this either, I have tried stuff such as
use lib ".";
and
use File::Basename;
use Cwd;

cwd(dirname($ENV{"SCRIPT_FILENAME"}));

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but didn't work. AFAIK when running perl scripts as CGI the directory should be the same as the script's. I could use absolute paths, but that gets less prettier and no compatibility with other's scripts which uses relative paths.

This question really isn't much related to perl but is more of a configuration question but after some googling this is pretty much the only perl message board in existence.

In reply to mod_perl's cwd not the same as the scripts location. by OnionKnight

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