Hello Again All,

This is a follow-up to this question. However, now I think that I have significantly narrowed the scope of the problem...hopefully :-). The test script below executes fine when run from the command prompt but fails when executed via the web server. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use lib qw(the/full/dir/path/8080/cgi-bin/usr/local
    the/full/dir/path/8080/cgi-bin/usr/local/lib/perl5
    the/full/dir/path/8080/cgi-bin/usr/local/bin
    the/full/dir/path/8080/cgi-bin/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    the/full/dir/path/8080/cgi-bin/usr/local/bin); 

use CGI qw/:standard/;
use HTTP::Request

print header;    
print "TEST SCRIPT\n";
exit;

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The following error is triggered. 
... the CGI program /the/full/dir/path/8080/htdocs/test.cgi did not pr
+oduce a valid header (name without value: got line "compilation faile
+d in require at /the/full/dir/path/8080/cgi-bin/usr/local/lib/perl5/s
+ite_perl/http/request.pm line 14.")

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At first I figured that the user that the web server runs under didn't have permission to read the modules. So I created a symbolic link to the module file (Request.pm) and the module contents displayed in the browser. Any thoughts?

In reply to Module Compilation Problem (cmd prompt vs. web) by mike hal

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