Wil — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:26:37 +0000

Good luck!

rline — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 07:32:49 +0000

Thanks Wil,

I'll ask the isp, and write back if I have any more problems.

cheers,...

Wil — Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:29:27 +0000

Your web root, is the path the web browser sees after your domain name. Here's an example:

http://www.domain.com/foo/bar/

The web path would be /foo/bar/, but on my machine, my web directory is mapped to /home/wil/domain.com/ so the unix path would be /home/wil/domain.com/foo/bar/.

Now, you can either ask your web hosting provider (possibly thebest idea!) what your unix working root is, or if you have telnet access, loginto your account and when logged in, type pwd at the command prompt. This should tell you where you are on the system, and just copy and paste that.

Cheers!

rline — Sun, 10 Mar 2002 03:20:42 +0000

Thanks Mark and Wil,

I did what you said (Wil) and the error message is now "no such file or directory". So I guess you're right. But I don't understand the difference between the root web and the unix root. I guess I have the root web in the script. How do I know/find the unix root?

Wil — Sat, 09 Mar 2002 16:00:26 +0000

Yeah, I go with what Mark said.

However, if you would of taken advantage of the Perl built-in error reporter (for the lack of a better word ) it would of told you this. Ammend the following line to see what the error is:

opendir(IMD, $dirtoget) or die("Cannot open directory. $!");

Notice the $!. That's the special Perl variable that holds your error message, and I bet you $5 virtual dollars it will tell you exactly what Mark said above

Mark Hensler — Sat, 09 Mar 2002 06:36:11 +0000

I'm pretty sure that it requires the full path, not from the root web, but the UNIX root.