Hello Monks, I'm using archive::zip to create a zip file. My code works fine when run as a perl script but when I try to run the same code as a cgi I cannot write the output file. I get a number 4 I/O error and $! says "permission denied". I'm using exactly the same files and folders in both cases. The only difference I can see is that the script that works is run as a local non-root user and the other is www apache, All my other cgi scripts happily write to these folders but archive::zip won't. 
   my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();
   # add all readable files and directories below . as xyz/*
   $zip->addTree( '/delme/wibble', 'customer_uploads' );
   $zip->addFile( '/delme/wibble.tif', 'wibble.tif' );
   $zip->addFile( '/delme/wibble.gif', 'wibble.gif' );
   # and write them into a file
   $zip_return_code = $zip->writeToFileNamed('/delme/final_zipfile.zip
+');
   if($zip_return_code != 0){ #an error occurred doing the zip
    $html_string = $html_string . "Error creating zip file . . . $zip_
+return_code $! ";
   }

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No doubt I'm doing something dumb. Would someone please enlighten me? Thanks

In reply to Archive::Zip errors by fluffyvoidwarrior

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