Question

I had a really wierd problem with my webserver setting the cwd for the scripts to the root directory of the webserver instead of the directory of the script. This ruins everything.

Below I show what I have added to the scripts to hopefully make this work.

• TWiki version: Sept 2001
• Web server: IIS5.0 (but I suspect with an II3.0 compatibility mode)
• Server OS: Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• Web browser: IE 5.0
• Client OS: Any

-- MartinCleaver - 04 Oct 2001

Answer

Insert this in every file in /bin immediately after the #! perl line:

BEGIN{($_=$0)=~s!(.*)[\\/][^\\/]+$!!;chdir $1}

For what it does, see http://www.rcbowen.com/imho/perl_cwd_iis.html I modified it to make it work in taint mode.

-- MartinCleaver - 04 Oct 2001

Please rename this to Bizarre ... (Also, surely I should be able to rename my own topic, especially if no-one has made changes!!)