Somehow I get the impression we're missing part of the information here.
Suggestion just in case :
change the instruction below to
if (-e "/path/to/file.txt") {
print "file exists";
} else {
print "it does not";
}
What's happening then ?
markhutch wrote:
I have a working Apache2/Perl 5.8.8 multi-threaded system using mod_per2.0.3
running on Solaris 9. I have a working SOAP service which checks for the
existence of certain files located outside the htdocs path. Everything works
fine.
I installed the same Apache2/Perl/mod_perl2 using the same make switches etc
on a different machine (also running solaris 9) and I can use a browser and
it works. If I call a simple page (Rocks.pm - comes with mod_perl2 (or
Apache2 - can't remember which)). It comes back and says mod_perl rocks.
That also works.
However, if I add a simple test to the Rocks.pm:
if (-e "/path/to/file.txt") { print "file exists"; }
The Rocks.pm NEVER sees the "file.txt" - it doesn't think it exists. The
file DOES exist and it has 777 permissions. It has a few lines of text
(therefore, NOT empty).
And there are no errors in the Apache2 log file.
Any ideas as to where to start looking would be greatly appreciated.
