Re: Trouble writing to a file from mod_perl

[Carl Brewer <ca...@bl.echidna.id.au>]

Rod Brick wrote:

> I'm trying to write for a file from a mod_perl script.  I can write
> successfully to a file located in /tmp, but I cannot write to
> the dir containing the script, nor to the apache logs dir.  How can
> this be accomplished?  Is there a setting in httpd.conf that I
> need to specify?  Is it a file permissions problem?  I don't want to
> make the script dir world read/writable.  Would the Apache::Log
> interface allow me to write to my own file?  My code looks something
> like the following:
> 
> open(LOG, ">>/usr/local/apache/htdocs/aws/perl/rod.log") || print
> "script.pl: Can't write to log file.";
> print LOG "hello\n";
> close LOG

change it to
open(LOG, ">>/usr/local/apache/htdocs/aws/perl/rod.log") || print
"script.pl: Can't write to log file : $! ";
print LOG "hello\n";
close LOG

And at least it'll tell yuo why it can't write to the file :)

Carl