I wrote some code in a cgi script to allow a user to upload an image to my website. It is taken from web examples. It works fine on my offline Windows Apache emulator but gives the following error message when installed and executed on my website:

CGI open of tmpfile: Read-only file system

when the command:

my $query = new CGI;

is the next one to be executed. I have been searching everywhere to find out what I have to do to fix this and tried all of the suggestions but nothing seems to work. I've taken care to untaint the variables used in the file name and create folders that the CGI documentation says is where the software tries to place the temporary file while uploading it. Help tickets to my web host don't yield an answer either but they don't say if their drives are simply not set to allow this kind of upload. Any help will be appreciated.

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