... my file in a directory called /public_html/uploadedfiles

Are you sure that's where your file is supposed to be?  According to your code: 

#
# Upload directory for files
#
my $upload_dir = "/home/me/uploaded_files";

# ...

chdir $upload_dir;

die "Usage: $0 INPUT_FILENAME\n" unless $input_file;

die "Can't process '$upload_dir/$input_file': File does not exist!\n"
    unless -f "$upload_dir/$input_file";

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So I'm not seeing any place where you reference /public_html/uploadfiles (or even just uploadfiles) in your program.

Maybe you have a symbolic link from /home/me to /public_html, and you meant uploadedfiles (without the underscore) in the program?

And what do the logs say?  Try running tail -100f /var/log/httpd/error_log in a separate window before you run it, for extra information.

@ARGV=split//,"/:L"; map{print substr crypt($_,ord pop),2,3}qw"PerlyouC READPIPE provides"

In reply to Re: where art thou file? by liverpole
in thread where art thou file? by Angharad

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