Greetings Monks

I am stuck with another problem working with server. I'm making a cgi script to search for a word in html files located within my server file structure.

Im using the xampp 1.7.7 running Apache. In my htdocs directory i created a new one called 'myDir' in which i will have a few html files. I am trying to create a cgi script in which i use file::find. I read the cpan article and i understand that since i'm doing the search in one specific directory i need to replace the @directories_to_search array with just my directory name so it looks like this:

 find(\&wanted, '/myDir/');

The problem is that when i use the full disk path the script finds the files but not when i use the short localhost path as shown below:

 find(\&wanted, 'C:/xampp/htdocs/myDir/');

examples below don't find anything, as the variable $File::Find::name doenst return anything

 find(\&wanted, '/myDir/');  find(\&wanted, 'http://localhost/myDir/');  find(\&wanted, 'http://localhost/htdocs/myDir/');

Thank you in advance,

Yoshiro

In reply to file::find usage with apache question by Yoshiro

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