Problem writing to a file from a perl website

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I have a Perl-driven website on a windows 2003 server. I have configured the IIS and have set the permissions on the Home Directory tab to Read, Write and my Execute Permissions are set to "Scripts and Executable."

I have gotten the site to work but my problem is, when I run the below code from my web browser, I do not see a file called "data.txt" in the same directory. When I execute this from the console, it works just fine. What am I doing wrong?? Is there anything else that I need to set?

Any help would be appreciated!

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 use strict;

open (MYFILE, '>>data.txt');

print MYFILE "this is a test\n";

close (MYFILE);
 
print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n";

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n\n";

print <<html_end;

<html>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-88959-1">

</head>

<body>

<p>Writing to a file...complete</p>

</body>

</html>

html_end

Feb 15 '08 #1

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I have a Perl-driven website on a windows 2003 server. I have configured the IIS and have set the permissions on the Home Directory tab to Read, Write and my Execute Permissions are set to "Scripts and Executable."

I have gotten the site to work but my problem is, when I run the below code from my web browser, I do not see a file called "data.txt" in the same directory. When I execute this from the console, it works just fine. What am I doing wrong?? Is there anything else that I need to set?

Any help would be appreciated!

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use strict;

open (MYFILE, '>>data.txt');

print MYFILE "this is a test\n";

close (MYFILE);

print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n";

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n\n";

print <<html_end;

<html>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-88959-1">

</head>

<body>

<p>Writing to a file...complete</p>

</body>

</html>

html_end

have you checked the cgi-bin directory where this script is most likely residing? Also, after the opening of the file, test to make sure it worked.

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open (MYFILE, '>>data.txt') or die "Cannot open file: $!";

That way, it gives you the error if it has a problem.

So that you are able to see the errors, also add the following:

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use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

Feb 15 '08 #2

bpejman

New Member

Thank you so much for replying. My script does not reside under cgi-bin. It's actually under wwwroot folder. I do know that the script does get executed but as I suspected, I'm running into permission issues.

I did what you mentioned, by the way, thanks for that! and added

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CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

and surely it came back saying "Cannot Open file...Permission denied"

I don't believe I would need to set the permissions on the NTFS side. Even though I did and still did not resolve my problem. Maybe I need to stop and start the webserver for the permissions to kick in???

Not sure what to do

have you checked the cgi-bin directory where this script is most likely residing? Also, after the opening of the file, test to make sure it worked.

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open (MYFILE, '>>data.txt') or die "Cannot open file: $!";

That way, it gives you the error if it has a problem.

So that you are able to see the errors, also add the following:

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use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

Feb 15 '08 #3

bpejman

New Member

Ok, I figured it out. I set the directory permissions on the wwwroot and Inetpub to Write and it worked. The directory permissions were inherited which never really made it up to the directory that I had my script in. Now it all works!

:)

Thank you so much for replying. My script does not reside under cgi-bin. It's actually under wwwroot folder. I do know that the script does get executed but as I suspected, I'm running into permission issues.

I did what you mentioned, by the way, thanks for that! and added

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CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

and surely it came back saying "Cannot Open file...Permission denied"

I don't believe I would need to set the permissions on the NTFS side. Even though I did and still did not resolve my problem. Maybe I need to stop and start the webserver for the permissions to kick in???

Not sure what to do

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