Problem writing file in CGI script

[brabster]

Hi, this is my first post so please excuse any mistakes!

I'd like to write files using an upload script in my website, but I'm having problems. I don't seem to be able to write a file. Ive set up the following script to test this. It first reads a file successfully, then tries to write a file in the same directory. When run, the script stops at the line to open the file for writing without any errors. The permissions on the directory are 707, so I don't think this is the problem. Can anyone help me?

(www.thetimeband.com/cgi-bin/upload_file.cgi)

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);

use lib '.';
use timebandweb;

my $testread = $ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'}."/misc/test.txt";
my $testwrite = $ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'}."/misc/test1.txt";

timeband_header("testing");

timeband_wrapper_start();

print "Attempting to read $testread<br>\n";

open READFILE, "< $testread" or die "Unable to open $testread: $!\n";

while (<READFILE>) {
print "$_<br>\n";
}

close READFILE;

print "Attempting to write $testwrite<br>\n";

open WRITEFILE, "> $testwrite" or die "Unable to open $testwrite: $!\n";

print WRITEFILE "It worked...\n";

close WRITEFILE;

print "All done<br>\n";

timeband_wrapper_end();

timeband_footer();

[bharad]

brab,

usually, scripts executed by webservers are run as user, "apache" or "nobody", as configured.

it is not enough for the end directory to have write permissions for this user, but the entire path should have write permissions. ensure you have it. alternatively, try if the program writes in /tmp to start with. if it does, it is clearly a permission issue.

-bharad