Re: GD newbee question

[matthewb]

As Mr. Muskrat suggests, this is more to do with your appreciation of web server layout and permissions than Perl. If I run your script right here and then tail the error.log, I get:

[Sun Nov  2 06:36:56 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] file permissions
+ deny server execution: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/image.png

If, however, I modify the open line to write a file in the document root and, in the HTML section, change the img src to look like this:

<img src="/image.png" alt="a red circle" />

...I get a red circle, which I guess is what you are after.

MB

[Plankton]

Ah! Thanks!
I changed these lines ...

open( FH, '>image.png' ) or die "Can't image.png:$!\n";
.
.
.
<img src='image.png'>

... to ...

open( FH, '>../public_html/image.png' ) or die "Can't image.png:$!\n";
.
.
.
<img src='/image.png'>

... and now it works! Thanks.