I have a script that connects over ODBC to a MS Access database.
When this is run from the command prompt it produces the expected output
#!d:/perl/bin/perl.exe -w
#
use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use DBI;

#DBI->trace(2, 'c:/temp/timetable.log');
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:ODBC:TIMETABLE', '', '', {RaiseError=>1})o
+r die "Failed to connect to database: ",DBI->errstr();

my $page = new CGI;
print $page->header();
.
.
.

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When I run this cgi script from a web browser I get the following error message 
Software error:

DBI->connect(CMIS) failed: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] N
+ot a valid file name. (SQL-S1000)(DBD: db_login/SQLConnect err=-1) at
+ d:/apps/apache/cgi-bin/timetable.pl line 9

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Can anyone shed some light on this please

In reply to DBI Failing to connect from cgi script by ColtsFoot

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