Larry, That was it. By setting STATE_DIR to the absolute path, the script now runs.
Can folks on this list perhaps share a little discussion about methods I could use to "chdir to the right directory at script startup." It would help to see a sampling of idea. Thanks. :-) At 11:57 PM 6/14/04 -0400, you wrote: >Hi David - > >> MOD_PERL=mod_perl/1.99_07-dev > [cut] >> It runs fine when accessed with http://hostname/cgi-bin/graffiti.pl. >> However, when accessed with http://hostname/cgi-perl/graffiti.pl, I get: >> >> Server error! >> The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your >> request. >> Error message: >> Failed opening session state file ./STATES/259344: No such file or >> directory at /var/www/cgi-perl/graffiti.pl line 104. > >That's a really old version of mod_perl 2. I think for that version, >ModPerl::Registry did not chdir to the script directory before running the >script (because of some thread-related problems). If you print the >current directory from inside your script somewhere e.g.: > > print "<p>current directory is: ", `pwd`, "</p>"; > >you'll probably find you're not in the directory you thought you were. > >You need to either chdir to the right directory at script startup, or >define $STATE_DIR using an absolute path instead of a relative path. > > >HTH, >Larry > > > > > -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
