Re^3: Proble with image on Perl-CGI

if the URL starts with a /, it is interpreted relative to your domain name, not to the script (sorry if I was unclear about that).

Please don't move upload directories into a cgi-bin dir, that might be a huge security risk. Let it stay in /var/www/upload, and link to it with href="/upload/$filename".

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Re^4: Proble with image on Perl-CGI by daynite (Initiate) on Mar 26, 2009 at 16:14 UTC
i moved the 'upload' folder in to /var/www/ and in i modified the script like below my $upload_dir = "/var/www/upload"; and <img src="/var/www/upload/$filename" alt="Photo" /> sorry ... if i not understood..	[reply]
Re^5: Proble with image on Perl-CGI by lostjimmy (Chaplain) on Mar 26, 2009 at 16:44 UTC
When you visit a website, such as http://www.example.com/upload/test.html, the web server is going to take everything after the domain (i.e. /upload/test.html), append that to what is usually called the Document Root (e.g. /var/www), and come up with a path of /var/www/upload/index.html. In your case, it looks like your document root is also /var/www. So, if you are uploading images into /var/www/upload/, then you want to point the browser to http://yourdomain.com/upload/$filename. You also have the option of dropping the domain and simply providing /upload/$filename.	[reply]
Re^4: Proble with image on Perl-CGI by daynite (Initiate) on Mar 26, 2009 at 16:37 UTC
i have moved 'upload' folder to /var/www/ and i modified my script with.. my $upload_dir = "/var/www/upload"; and <img src="/var/www/upload/$filename" alt="Photo" />	[reply]