[MacPerl] Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Viewing a file inside a cgi-bin?

["Andrew O. Mellinger" <andrew@criticalpath.com>]

>Hi all:
>
>I have a newbie problem:
>
>I wrote a guestbook script that writes to my "guestbook.htm" file. I put
>this file inside the cgi-bin so it could be written to, but now, obviously,
>nobody can view it and they get a 500 internal server error.
>
>What is the right way to do this? Should I put the .htm file outside the
>cgi-bin and set  write permissions on it?

   "Right way?"  I'm not sure I've ever heard of the right way.

   You could:
-Put it outside and give you webserver permissions to write to it.
-Or have the guestbook script actually return the file on the fly for 
you. If you do that, then you can actually keep the guestbook info in 
a database type thing and format it on the fly.

-Andrew

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