IIS PWD Environment variable problem

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Hi

I use a cgi-bin counter script written in Perl to provide graphical counters
on my site. Part of this relies on writing to a private directory not
accesible on the web server. The script was located at
http://www.website.com/cgi-bin/counter.pl and it used to simply have the path
to write in as "../private/xxx" under IIS on Windows 2000 advanced server
this used to result in going down one directory from the webroot as the PWD
environment variable was set to the webroot (not including the cgi-bin path
segment). Now under Windows XP Proffesional IIS is setting the PWD
environemtn variable to be the path including the cgi-bin directory. I am
using Active Perl on both machines.

Does anyone know if this is a bug in the latest IIS, or where if any they
document this change in behaviour of IIS.

Thanks

Tony

 

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| Hi
|
| I use a cgi-bin counter script written in Perl to provide graphical counters
| on my site. Part of this relies on writing to a private directory not
| accesible on the web server. The script was located at
| http://www.website.com/cgi-bin/counter.pl and it used to simply have the path
| to write in as "../private/xxx" under IIS on Windows 2000 advanced server
| this used to result in going down one directory from the webroot as the PWD
| environment variable was set to the webroot (not including the cgi-bin path
| segment). Now under Windows XP Proffesional IIS is setting the PWD
| environemtn variable to be the path including the cgi-bin directory. I am
| using Active Perl on both machines.
|
| Does anyone know if this is a bug in the latest IIS, or where if any they
| document this change in behaviour of IIS.
|
| Thanks
|
| Tony