writing files on HD vs overwriting files on Apache CGI

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

Permissions IS the issue... even the infamous "Matt's FormMail-B" Perl 
script will not open a new log file for write to capture incoming 
POSTed data from a web form in a directory outside the  cgi-bin  unless 
the file already exists. so, it's not an MC thing...

JB, can you send me off list your CGI? and the URL to the web page (or 
the HTML for the page itself)  I actually have on the roster a project 
to create a stack to distribute to people to upload photos and 
captions, but a web based cgi will also be very useful for certain 
situations. I'll try it on our servers in Honolulu and see if we can 
figure it out...

Thanks
Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
Himalayan Academy Publications
at Kauai's Hindu Monastery
katir at hindu.org

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On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 12:12 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Hmmm... I could have sworn I had an MC-based CGI creating both text and
> stack files within a folder in my cgi-bin....
>
> Could it be a permissions setting for the directory that's affecting 
> this?
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
>  Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site