you are putting it there (intentionally or otherwise)?

Um, no - I'm not putting the _vti_cnf there, nor the Config.pm which is in the _vti_cnf dir. Both are created by FP. I'm sort of scoobied why Perl would search in this directory at all, as it's clearly not in @INC.

you believe the presence of config.pm to be an "automatic" feature of FP? or

The creation of the Config.pm file in the _vti_cnf directory is something FP does, when it does it's thing.

the source for what FP pretends is .html may include some sort of reference to config.pm?

No. FP isn't reading the (original) Config.pm file as if it was some native module, it's just creating metadata about the Config.pm file, and saving it in a directory called, _vti_cnf in a file called, Config.pm. It's braindead, I know.

Based solely on the limited info you've provided, I suspect the problem lies in your selection of and linking (eg, coding) to <dir> names,

Limited? I gave a background, what I think is happening, a bare-bones example script, and then asked for help on some points - since I'm stuck. I think a better word would be concise, or, to the point.

but I'm so rabidly anti-FP that YMMV.

Well, if you don't know FrontPage, why are you commenting at all? I don't really have any stance on FrontPage - it's a program, I don't use it, but it is installed on hosting accounts. I make programs that theoretically should run on these hosting accounts, but I'm having problems with this one issue.

Addressing the last part of your reply, first: I did not say I "don't know FrontPage;" I said, loosely translated, that I don't like it because the code it produces is non-compliant with w3c standards, filled with proprietary bloat, and exceedingly difficult to transform to anything which does meet my standards. Your standards may vary, but please don't twist my words.

Your observation that "FP isn't reading the (original) Config.pm file as if it was some native module, it's just creating metadata about the Config.pm file, and saving it in a directory called..." seems, in the context your two nodes now provide, to suggest that FP has access to Config.pm... which rings warning bells to me.

"Limited??" - Yes. Still. No clear statement of OS; no hint of which server software (Apache, IIS, something else?) you're concerned with. And in light of your reply, I'm not even sure if the phrase "hosting accounts" has the same meaning to you that I initially initially credited it with meaning.

And, finally, your so-called "... bare-bones example script...." illustrates very little of any consequence (except, perhaps, the use lib qw(./lib); suggesting a *n*x-ish OS).

Addressing the last part of your reply, first: I did not say I "don't know FrontPage;" I said, loosely translated, that I don't like it because the code it produces is non-compliant with w3c standards, filled with proprietary bloat, and exceedingly difficult to transform to anything which does meet my standards. Your standards may vary, but please don't twist my words.

I understand FP's shortcomings. So, are you adept at it, or not? If you're not, you may not be as helpful to this question. I'm inept at FP, thus the original q. I can't explain what's going on, and I'm looking for help.

Your observation that "FP isn't reading the (original) Config.pm file as if it was some native module, it's just creating metadata about the Config.pm file, and saving it in a directory called..." seems, in the context your two nodes now provide, to suggest that FP has access to Config.pm... which rings warning bells to me.

FP seems to have access to anything in the public html directory - which may include the cgi-bin, which may also include perl scripts, perl modules, etc. I'm not the one that set up this hosting account, or this situation. I'm just trying to find a workaround. I agree, it all sounds totally... well, dumb. Is there a way to turn off access to certain directories? I don't know - seem to be a good setting to have in the program. It's also one of the intial questions I posed. I think this is a problem with FP, not Perl (I *think*), although I can't change frontpage, there may be a workaround that I can put in the initial perl script.

"Limited??" - Yes. Still. No clear statement of OS; no hint of which server software (Apache, IIS, something else?) you're concerned with. And in light of your reply, I'm not even sure if the phrase "hosting accounts" has the same meaning to you that I initially initially credited it with meaning.

Well, you can ask: "What Server/OS you usin'?". Simple enough - it's Apache on a Unix-flavor. We're working on a shared web hosting account.

 

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