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Chiffa
Chiffa

Reputation: 1506

A perl/cgi script for uploading files

I've tried to run this script: http://www.seaglass.com/file-upload-pl.html. in Apache. Since I'm running a win7 x64, I modified the script, so it goes: #! C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe -wT instead of just #! /usr/bin/perl The page runs smoothly, but any uploading attempts fail with a Can't open /tmp/outfile for writing - No such file or directory error. I have created a /tmp/outfile directory and a/tmp/outfile.txt file. I'm really new to Perl, and thus don't know what could be wrong. Please advise.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 657

Answers (2)

Palec
Palec

Reputation: 13551

Unix path components are delimited using forward slashes, not backslashes, drives cannot be seen explicitly in the path. Perl can handle / as path separator on Windows, treating C: as filesystem root. (Thanks, jimtut!) Therefore Unix path /tmp/outfile translates to C:\tmp\outfile on Windows. It is path to a (possibly non-existent) file, where the uploaded contents should be stored.

If you want to be really sure about portability of your code, use File::Spec module to build the paths. It allows avoiding explicitly writing path separator (/ on Unix, \ on Windows).

When using Windows-style paths, remember to double the \ when writing it into a double-quoted string. ("C:\\tmp\\outfile") The escaping issue is the same as in shell, PHP and many other languages…

Upvotes: 0

jimtut
jimtut

Reputation: 2393

/tmp/outfile is the output filename, not a directory name. Create C:\tmp, but remove C:\tmp\outfile if you really created that directory too.

Upvotes: 2

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