CODEWITHSUNDEEP
windowsperlcgisystem
mac
mac

Reputation: 930

Perl CGI script working from cmd but not from browser

I have a CGI perl script which will first chdir to a specified location and then run a command(This command runs only in this specified directory since it uses a input file build.xml which is in this directory, if we try to run this command in any other location, it throws a error "Build failed Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!"). If I execute this perl script in cmd, the script works fine. But does not work in a browser, it throws the same error "Build failed Buildfile: build.xml does not exist! " How can this happen ? Can someone help me on how to resolve this. Here is the code 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl - w
use strict;
use CGI ':standard';

print header;
print start_html("welcome");
print "<h1>welcome</h1>\n";
print_prompt();
print end_html;

sub print_prompt {
print start_form;
print "<em>welcome</em><br>";
chdir('G:\\Documents and Settings/Administrator/eworkspace/Sample');
print `ant`;

}

Using cwd I found my directory is not getting changed with chdir('G:\\Documents and Settings/Administrator/eworkspace/Sample'); how is that so ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1655

Answers (1)

mpapec
mpapec

Reputation: 50667

chdir('G:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/eworkspace/Sample')
  or die $!;

will tell you if chdir was successful. If it wasn't it might be that web server user doesn't have access to specified folder.

Upvotes: 1

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