Hi fellow monks,

I've got a site which I'm trying to use on two different platforms: Win2000/IIS and Linux/Apache.
Everything succeeds, except for one thing:
require "../config.pl";
What doesn't work is that the IIS can't find the config.pl-file, even though it's got '.' in it's @INC.
The simplest solution would off course be to use an absolute path, but the thing is that I want the config-file to tell me what the abs. path is, not define it in multiple files.

So it looks like IIS-perl (activeperl v5.8) doesn't like the '../'.
Okay, so the solution:
$temp = $ENV{'PATH_TRANSLATED'}; # get full path
$temp =~ s|\\|/|g; # convert \ to / (necessary if win)
$temp =~ s/\/([^\/]*)\/([^\/]*)$//; # strip the last two parts (filena
+me and current folder) to get to '../'
push(@INC, $temp); # now it's got the right folder
require "config.pl"; # so the '../' isn't needed

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But I'm 100% sure there are many better things to do instead of this.
Would someone be so kind to help me with this issue?

Thanx in advance, Paul

In reply to IIS doesn't like my require statement by frinky

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