Topic: errmsg "pwd: cannot determine current directory"

[sw98109]

got product working ok but am getting this errmsg on every page.  i got the errmsg to go away by commenting out the "use=cwd" line but somehow i think this might not be the best approach.

only thing i can think to mention that could be germane here is that the scripts are not in the cgi-bin directory per se.  i put them into a directory called /album right off the webroot, the directory and files seem to have the right permissions as the scripts run.  

debug=4 reports:

1688: SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_mhp mod_mhp_log mod_virtcgi frontPage/5.0 mod_status_mhp
1688: GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
1688: DOCUMENT_ROOT: /nfs/cust/5/27/15/251725/web
1688: SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
1688: HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)


can this issue just be ignored indefinately or is this going to cause problems in the future?

THANKS for any help you can give!

[Mike Bobbitt]

Hi there!

I'd say it's a problem with your PERL installation. The cwd package is pretty standard, and is used to determine the "current working directory."

The good news is, the cwd command is only used during first time configuration, so if your album is up and running already, you don't need to worry about it.

Cheers