Hi Monks, I am struggling with opening files using Perl as CGI.
I just want to show the contents of a file (just in the testing fase)
I use this simple code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

open (INFILE, '<', 'textfile.txt');
while (<INFILE>)
{
  print "$_\n";
}
close (INFILE);
The trouble is: I don't get an error-message, but I also don't see the contents of textfile.txt. If I try to print other stuff, for example: I add the line: print "Hello\n"; under the line where I close INFILE, it will return the string Hello in my browser.
Even if the file textfile.txt doesn't exist, it won't return an error-message. Not in my browser and not in my logfile on my server. If I make other mistakes, for example, something with the syntax, it will return error-messages in both my browser and the error-logs of Apache.

Any of you Monks an idea? :) Thanx in advance,

Tim

Server running: Gentoo Linux with Apache 2.2.8 with mod_perl/2.0.3-dev Perl/v5.8.8

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