Hi,

I have written the start of a script to talk to a PBX through Device::SerialPort

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use warnings;
use strict;

use Device::SerialPort;
use CGI;

my $pbx = Device::SerialPort->new("/dev/ttyS0", baudrate => 2400, parity => "none", databits => 8, stopbits => 1, handshake => "none");

$pbx->write_settings() || die "failed write settings";


This is only the relevant snippit

This works fine when run from the command line, however when called as a CGI from Apache I get.

Can't call method "write_settings" on an undefined value at /var/www/cgi-bin/pbx.pl line 12.

This makes no sense to me, If I leave out the calls to Device::SerialPort, I get my web formated page properly, put it in, I get errors.

Run it from the command line, and I get the output I am looking for...No Errors!

I have never had this sort of issue with any Module in the past when using it as a web based program.

Help Please...

Glen

In reply to Wierd Apache issue by gbizeau

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