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Re: CGI and Perl

Posted by Frank Hale on 1999-03-19

> > I take this back it will update files only if I create them manually
> and
> > then chmod 777 on them to give them full permissions. I wish I didn't
> > have to do this, I mean I don't have to do it on my box which is a
> linux
> > box. And my webhost runs the same OS as me and same version of Perl so
> > why do I have to do this on there server?
> 
> Its due to the way they have their permissions setup for user
> accounts. The perl program is run as nobody or as www or httpd, and
> tries to write to a directory owned by you, and so it does not have
> the permission to create the file properly.

Thanx Matty. I was not aware of that. It took me about 1 hour to resolve
the problem and the scripts are working correctly.

I just got used to testing them on my machine using Apache and having
total access to my machine. Perl and Apache make one hell of a nice
pair. 

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