Hi, Am pretty new to perl scriptin

[ahksar]

Hi,
Am pretty new to perl scripting...I was just doing an online poll, and I get this error...
PerlScript: ERROR reading config.txt
I have changed the permission to the config.txt as 755
The code I have in my vote.pl script is as follows...
$config="config.txt .....and
if (!open(filehandle1,$config)) {printError("ERROR reading $config\n
vote.pl and config.txt are in the cgi-bin directory...
Any feedback will be appreciated...
Thanks
ahksar

 

[goBoating]

This is a pretty self explanitory error. The 'open' function is failing. Either, you have described the location of 'config.txt' inappropriately or the web daemon does not have read permissions for it.

Try fully qualifying the path to 'config.txt'.

$config = '/some/path/httpd/cgi-bin/config.txt';
if (!open(filehandle1,&quot;<$config&quot) { printError......

And, make sure the everyone can read the file. If you want tighter security than that, tighten the permissions and chown on it after you get the basics working.

'hope this helps.


keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo

 

[MikeLacey]

Try

printError(&quot;ERROR reading $config\n$!\n&quot;

And you should get a nice(ish) error message in your output when it goes wrong.
Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com