in reply to Can't open file using Perl as CGI

It's likely there's an error, but you have to check for it: 
open(INFILE, '<', 'textfile.txt') or die "unable to open textfile.txt:
+ $!";
...

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and this will show the error in your server's error log.

My guess is that you need to specify an absolute path for textfile.txt.

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Re: Can't open file using Perl as CGI
by timtowtdi (Sexton) on May 19, 2008 at 22:03 UTC
    That was it! The "or die"-addition!
    I already checked whether the script was running in the correct directory, and it did. It turned out to be quite easy: The rights set on 'textfile' weren't right; Apache wasn't able to read.
    Thanks Monks! You really helped me out!

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