in reply to dbmopen does not work

What is the bareword param there for? Shouldn't this be a hash?

Are you checking for failure and printing an error message? That error message will probably help you a lot more than we can, given the information we have.

dbmopen(%hash, $config_file, 0666) 
   or die "Couldn't open DBM: $!";

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Note that dbmopen has been "largely superceded by tie": 
use NDBM_File;
use Fcntl;

tie(%hash, 'NDBM_File', $config_file, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0640)
   or die "Couldn't open NDBM: $!";

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If this is a CGI script you may need to examine the server error logs for the resulting error messages, or use something like CGI::Carp to send them to the browser: 
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';

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Re: Re: dbmopen does not work
by sinan (Sexton) on Nov 19, 2000 at 22:57 UTC
    Thanks a lot for telling me about CGI::Carp. It really helped. But here is the error message: 
    
No such file or directory at /blah/blah/blah/cgi-bin/configure_counter
+.pl line 54.

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    I think that dbmopen is ougth to create the file... Is that wrong?
    param is a hash, but I think that you do not need to put the % at the beginning. Anyway, I tried it, still the same message.

    I need to finish this in a hurry, so I cannot user tie now, but next time I will.

    Thanks a lot for your help, Sinan
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      Does your script have permissions to write to that directory? Most web configurations set themselves up so that they are restricted in what they can do/write. I believe dbmopen gives you a "No such file or directory" error instead of "Permission denied" if it simply cannot create the file due to a problem of this nature.

      Check your ownerships and permissions of the directory you're attempting to write to. You may have to create a new directory for CGI data files in such a way that the user the web server is running as can write to it.

      That, or use /tmp.

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        I am on my own server, the location for the file is:
        /data/

        I have created the directory myself and its permissions are 755. So it cannot be a problem of permissions.

        Thanks a lot,
        Sinan
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