Heya,

I'm having some peculiarities with servers that run Frontpage extensions, and perl cgi apps that have lib files.

I'm not a Frontpage guru, but the program seems to like to create directories called, "_vti_cnf" all over the place - I'm assuming as a cache or a place to put some sort of meta data for the FP program itself.

Fairly ugly. But a weird thing also happens - these directories become part of @INC. File store in the, "_vti_cnf" directories hold the same name as the files they're meta-data'ing/caching - but with different content - which means, if the copy of these files try to get used in a perl app, perl will tell you there's all sort of errors.

The workaround is to just move the app-specific perllib out of wherever the app (in this case, a CGI script) is located, usually in the cgi-bin, and locate it in, say, the home directory.

Here's a diagram of the directory structure: 

cgi-bin
---- script.pl 
---- lib (dir)
-------- Config.pm
-------- Brain.pm
-------- _vti_cnf (dir)
------------ Config.pm

For whatever reason, the copy of, "Config.pm" in the, "_vti_cnf" dir will be used/required etc, even though the program could look like this: 

 

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use lib qw(./lib); 
use Config.pm

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So, is there some sort of workaround, either telling perl not to use the Front Page created directories, or something in Frontpage to tell it to layoff the cgi-bin?

I develop a program (Gnu), that gets installed all over the place, so I have no control over the environment it gets installed in.

Thanks for your help!

 

-justin simoni
skazat me

In reply to MS Frontpage, _vti_cnf directories and perllibs by skazat

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