[ts-7000] RE: where is ../data when referenced in a cgi program ?

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Walter:   of course you can, but the relative indexing is a guess as to where it is.  My question refers to where exactly is "../data/" 

Jason, 

That's not right, I was able to make a sub-directory in /usr/lib/cgi-bin called data, (aka /usr/lib/cgi-bin/data/" ) and a file in that called data.txt, but to reference it the correct syntax was:

#define DATAFILE "data/data.txt"

note I removed the "../" from the beginning of the string.  for "../data/" to work am I supposed to make a directory /usr/lib/data ???    I don't understand why application data and software is by default set to go into the /usr/lib area, and the html documents are set to go to /var/www/  by default.   

As delivered, the fifle httpd.conf has zero bytes in it.  Is that where I put my overrides to the default directorires?   I would like all my website stuff; html, images, databases, cgi to all reside in a single branch, for example /var/www/...  where under /var/www/  I have 

/var/www/images/

/var/www/cgi-bin/ 

/var/www/data/

/var/www/logs/

/var/www/htmlbook01/

/var/www/htmlbook01/chapter01/

/var/www/htmlbook01/chapter02/

...

/var/www/htmlbook02/

 

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On 9/27/2013 3:48 PM, m("...","jleslie48");"> wrote:

so I want to open a data file, in a c program collect_post.cgi.   

it wants to open the data file as: 

#define DATAFILE "../data/data.txt"

...

 f = fopen(DATAFILE, "a");

so where do I mkdir the ../data/ directory?

is it in /usr/bin/cgi-bin   or /var/www ?????

it would be the cgi-bin directory as defined in httpd.conf or files it includes.

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Jason Stahls

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