in reply to Using FindBin or CWD from within a CGI program

Looks like your Apache is configured not to give your script access to anything outside your own directory. So "/" is the root of your own directory, not the root of the system itself.

What does 
use CGI;
use Cwd;

mkdir "test";
chdir "test";

my $currentdir = getcwd;
print "Current dir is: $currentdir \n";

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print?


holli, /regexed monk/

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Re^2: Getting CWD from within a CGI program
by smack (Beadle) on Nov 21, 2005 at 17:29 UTC
    The output is still: "Current dir is: /". I am running the script frm my DocumentRoot either. I tried using FindBin as well, the following has the same result: 
    use FindBin;
print "\nBinary is: $FindBin::Bin \n";

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    It works fine when run from the command line.

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