PERL CGI Beginners - How to use sub directories in IIS and Apache HTTPD

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How to use sub directories in IIS and Apache HTTPD

Siegfried Heintze

2005-02-06, 3:55 am

When I try to employ subdirectories my perl cgi programs stop working. This
is because the "use" statements cannot find their files.

I could convert the "use evidence_db;" statements to "require
'../evidence_db.pm';" and that works. But this is painful.

Surely there is an easier way. I thought of going into the IIS setup and put
a "-I" switch for the perl statement IIS uses to invoke perl for CGI.
However, that could mess up other applications in other sites if I am not
the only site on the machine.

I don't know where I would change the setting in apache HTTPD for just the
current site either.

Can someone tell me?

Thanks,
Siegfried

Wiggins d'Anconia

2005-02-07, 3:55 pm

Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> When I try to employ subdirectories my perl cgi programs stop working. This
> is because the "use" statements cannot find their files.
>
> I could convert the "use evidence_db;" statements to "require
> '../evidence_db.pm';" and that works. But this is painful.
>
> Surely there is an easier way. I thought of going into the IIS setup and put
> a "-I" switch for the perl statement IIS uses to invoke perl for CGI.
> However, that could mess up other applications in other sites if I am not
> the only site on the machine.
>
> I don't know where I would change the setting in apache HTTPD for just the
> current site either.
>
> Can someone tell me?
>
> Thanks,
> Siegfried
>
>

perldoc lib

You can add directories to the @INC array at compile time. You may also
be interested in

perldoc FindBin

For instance in the top of my CGI handler I have,

use FindBin;
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../../lib";
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib";

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