Well, as /home/anithing/ was no writable even by chmod 777 it, I've  
created a new directory at:
/var/www/server/  and now, the script is able to write to a file  
without problem.

My problem now is that the same script should execute something, and  
it is not doing it.

The script now is:


#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;
print $q-> header();

$user = $q-> param('user');
$pass = $q-> param('pass');

if($user eq "Eduard" && $pass eq "xxxxx"){
$filecontents = $q-> param('filecontents');

#this is the line I replaced ant now the file.txt appears as expected
#open(FILE,"> /home/server/file.txt") or die;
open(FILE,"> /var/www/server/file.txt") or die;
print FILE $filecontents;
close(FILE);

#this is the line that is not working now:
system("wall New_file_written");

#nor this one, which is a call to another script located at /var/www/ 
server/
system("cd /var/www/server\n./executemyfile.pl");

print "hi $user!";
}
else{print "You are not authorized!"}


On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:10 AM, Andy_Bach@[...].gov wrote:

>  I'd be looking at the server's http error log. anything the script  
>  kicked
>  out, msg-wise will be there. You should also put some info in your  
>  'open'
>  stmt's die clause:
>  open(FILE,">/home/server/file.txt") or die;
> 
>  s/b:
>  open(FILE,">/home/server/file.txt")
>     or die "Can't write home/server/file.txt: $!";
> 
> > I don't know if this happens because of the https. I've set the
> > permissions of /home/server dir to 777, and also the same for all
> > files inside the directory, but
> > I cannot write a file inside this directory.
> 
>  This isn't anything important is it? This seems like the worst sort of
>  admin flailing. There's only one file there file.txt that'd matter and
>  /home also needs to be open enough for the user the web server is  
>  running
>  as to be able to see server and file.txt.  Your bare 'die' would put  
>  some
>  msg in the httpd error_log but by adding the info above (the "$!"  
>  would
>  give the human version of the OS error) it may be obvious.   But you  
>  can't
>  do cgi programming w/o the httpd error log.
> 
>  a
> 
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