Re: file::find usage with apache question

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Re^2: file::find usage with apache question by aaron_baugher (Curate) on May 08, 2012 at 12:37 UTC
One thing to add: it should be possible to use a relative pathname, but that would be `'myDir'`, not `'/myDir'`. Starting a pathname with a slash makes it an absolute pathname, so it looks for `myDir` in the root filesystem (whatever that means on Windows; maybe `C:\myDir`?). A relative pathname is looked for inside your current working directory, so if your CGI runs from `C:/www/htdocs`, then passing `'myDir'` to `find()` should cause it to look in `C:/www/htdocs/myDir`. If that doesn't work, you'll need to figure out in what current working directory your CGI does run. Or use `chdir` to switch to the right directory before calling `find()`. Or use the absolute pathname, as Corion pointed out and you've already discovered works fine. Aaron B. Available for small or large Perl jobs; see my home node.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: file::find usage with apache question by Corion (Patriarch) on May 08, 2012 at 13:43 UTC
Your approach assumes that the "current working directory" is predictable. It usually isn't, so using absolute path names eliminates one more point of guesswork when debugging a (new) server environment.	[reply]
Re^4: file::find usage with apache question by aaron_baugher (Curate) on May 08, 2012 at 22:57 UTC
Agreed, using an absolute pathname is best. The only time I'd use a relative one in a case like this were if I had already used chdir with an absolute path to switch to a particular directory that contained multiple subdirectories for different kinds of things; then I'd use relative paths to access those subdirectories. Aaron B. Available for small or large Perl jobs; see my home node.	[reply]
Re^4: file::find usage with apache question by Yoshiro (Novice) on May 08, 2012 at 16:11 UTC
Thank you Aaron and Corion Aaron, I have tried at first 'myDir' without slashes but it didn't work. I realize now it was because my script was running from 'cgi-bin' so it was looking in '/cgi-bin/myDir'. Corion, a good observation, noted. Yoshiro	[reply]
Re^5: file::find usage with apache question by tinita (Parson) on May 09, 2012 at 10:39 UTC
Re^6: file::find usage with apache question by Yoshiro (Novice) on May 09, 2012 at 23:19 UTC
Re^2: file::find usage with apache question by Yoshiro (Novice) on May 08, 2012 at 12:27 UTC
Thank you for your reply Corion, I understand now, i did some reading and found out about documentroot on Apache. Seems the way i did it specifying the full path is good. My mistake is that i was creating the link badly using just the $File::Find::name variable. Instead now use the $_ to create a good HTTP address or could extract $DocumentRoot from $File::Find::name if there are more subdirectories in 'myDir', again to create valid HTTP addresses. Thank you for pointing it out to me. Yoshiro	[reply]