Hi Monks!

I am trying to write cgi script that will list the contents of my external harddrive.

Here's what I got so far and it works from the command line. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
my $EX_DIR = "/media/EXTERNAL";

sub displayHardDriveFiles () {
        opendir( DIR, $EX_DIR )  || die "<H3>Cannot open $EX_DIR: $!</
+H3>\n";
        print <<HTML;
<table border=1>
<tr><th>Files on this harddrive</th></tr>
HTML
        foreach my $d (sort readdir(DIR))  {
                print "<tr><td>$d</td></tr>\n";
        }
        print <<HTML;
</table>
HTML
}

print header;
print start_html ("Welcome");
displayHardDriveFiles();
print end_html;

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But when I run it in the browser I get ... 
Software error:

<H3>Cannot open /media/EXTERNAL: Permission denied</H3>

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root@localhost), giving t
+his error message and the time and date of the error.

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What am I doing wrong? Is there some change I need to make to my httpd.conf and if what would that be? Thanks!

Edit: g0n - replaced pre tags with code tags

In reply to A CGI script to list the files on my external harddrive by Anonymous Monk

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