How to delete files via CGI on Win2k/IIS5 1

Arion23 · Jul 12, 2001

Hi all,

I have a script that generates temporary files into a directory on the server called "/files" (c:\inetpub\

Part of my script is to go through this directory and delete any files older than a certain time period. This is the code I have:

foreach $file (<c:/inetpub/

http://wwwroot/files/*.*>)

{
# if((-C $file) >= 0.1) {
system("del $file&quot

; }
#}

I've commented out the two lines because, for testing, I want to see if I can deleted all files in this directory.

The NTFS permissions for this dir have been set to Full Control for Everyone (again for testing), likewise with IIS's permissions - but it still don't work!

Can anyone offer any advice (or alternate code) as to how I might do this...

Thanks in advance

jez · Jul 12, 2001

Hey there,

I have done most of my CGI programming on NT (IIS5), but i haven't had the need to delete any files yet.

Elsewhere (as a stand alone app on my NT machine), I used
unlink to delete files...it is thorough and it seemed to get the job done....

I just tested it on my IIS and the following works ok.

use CGI qw(all

$startpath = 'C:/inetpub/

http://wwwroot/etc/';

$nasty = "test.txt";
sub doit {
$nasties = $startpath . $nasty;
unlink $nasties or warn "Can't delete $nasties: $!\n";
}
sub other {
print header;
print "<html><head><title></title></head><body>";
print "Done!!</body></html>";
}

&doit();
&other();
exit(0);

Hope this helps, oh and the web server is set to run scripts (but not scripts and executables).

Jez

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How to delete files via CGI on Win2k/IIS5 1

Arion23

IS-IT--Management

jez

Programmer

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