I'm steadily making progress with getting a collection of mod_perl 1 compatibale scripts working with mod_perl 2 using the backward compatibility mode.
However, I find that the working directory of all scripts is "/". This occurs for both ModPerl::Registry and Apache::Registry. This causes many scripts to fail because they call open() using a relative pathname. Surely the working directory of a script should be the directory in which it resides? It does not seem to matter what directory I am in when I invoke httpd; the script's current directory is always "/". I am mystified. Here is the output from a simple "printenv" cgi script (with some of the env variables snipped for brevity), which also prints the working directory using getcwd (and invokes "ld -al" to list the contents of the current directory): Content-type: text/plain DOCUMENT_ROOT="/dir1/dir2/httpd/htdocs" EXITSERVERLOC="http://localhost/cgi-bin/index.cgi"; GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI-Perl/1.1" HOME="/mps/home/cdi" HTTP_ACCEPT="image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/msword, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*" HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING="gzip, deflate" HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE="en-gb" HTTP_CONNECTION="Keep-Alive" HTTP_USER_AGENT="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT)" MOD_PERL="mod_perl/1.99_09" QUERY_STRING="" REQUEST_METHOD="GET" REQUEST_URI="/cgi-bin/printenv" SCRIPT_FILENAME="/dir1/dir2/httpd/cgi-bin/printenv" SCRIPT_NAME="/cgi-bin/printenv" SERVER_PORT="8000" SERVER_PROTOCOL="HTTP/1.1" SERVER_SIGNATURE="<address>Apache/2.0.46 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_09 Perl/v5.8.0 Server at homer Port 8000</address>\n" SERVER_SOFTWARE="Apache/2.0.46 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_09 Perl/v5.8.0" TZ="GB" Working directory is / total 329 drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 1024 Jul 16 09:50 . drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 1024 Jul 16 09:50 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jun 19 09:59 bin -> ./usr/bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Jun 27 14:42 cdrom drwxr-xr-x 16 root sys 4608 Jun 27 15:44 dev drwxr-xr-x 4 root sys 512 Jun 19 10:28 devices drwxr-xr-x 51 root sys 3584 Jul 18 14:04 etc drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 Jun 19 09:57 export and so on... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
