Re: Can't open file using Perl as CGI

[pc88mxer]

It's likely there's an error, but you have to check for it:

open(INFILE, '<', 'textfile.txt') or die "unable to open textfile.txt:
+ $!";
...

and this will show the error in your server's error log.

My guess is that you need to specify an absolute path for textfile.txt.

[timtowtdi]

That was it! The "or die"-addition!
I already checked whether the script was running in the correct directory, and it did. It turned out to be quite easy: The rights set on 'textfile' weren't right; Apache wasn't able to read.
Thanks Monks! You really helped me out!