In my program I am trying to have a user upload a file
to an apache web server. but my current code does not
upload anything. Help please.

use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);

print header(),start_html('Upload Files');
print start_multipart_form();

print h2('Upload Files');

print "Select the File: ",
      filefield(-name=>'filepath',
                -size=>30,
                -maxlength=>100),
      p,
      reset, submit('submit', 'Upload File');

print end_form();

if (my $filehandle = param('filepath')) {
  doUpload();
}
else {
  print "Choose a file to upload";
}

sub doUpload {
my ($bytes, $buffer, $bytesread);
my $filehandle = CGI::param('filepath');
open OUTFILE, '>$filehandle' or die "Couldn't open output file: $!\n";
while ($bytes = read($filehandle, $buffer, 1024)){
  $bytesread += $bytes;
  print OUTFILE $buffer;
  }
warn "Recieved $bytesread bytes";
close OUTFILE;
}

print end_html;

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In reply to need help with file uploading by gilbert

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