Then i guess somehting like this might work: 
open FILE, ">>$ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'}/folder/subfolder/digest.passwd" or
+ die $!;

[download]
DocumentRoot = "d:\www"

I though that Perl was asking apache for paths but now that ima thinking it more and more if Perl asked apache about interpreting '/' and apache said that '/ = "d:\www"' then Perl would have no way of differentiate real hdd paths from apache relative ones.

But linkign to files dows work in a relative way: look
print p( {align=>'center'}, a( {href=>'/cgi-bin/vault.pl'}, img{src=>'/data/images/hellas.gif'} ));
Here Perl can find is own way to determine and opne the file, how come it doesnt need an absolute path here?

One more thing is that if i move my passwd file to a place outside of my web space aapche sees the i ould be needign absolute paths and this ame script is about to run to 2 different hosts with different os , hence paths. How would i be able to specify the correct path since the paths would differ?

In reply to Re^4: Cannot open a file using a relative path by Nik
in thread Cannot open a file using a relative path by Nik

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