Why cant my C++ cgi-bin program create files

[Joncamp]

My c++ cgi-bin is working now, getting post fields from environment variable, etc. And great thanks to all for your help.

But, now the problem is that the c++ cgi-bin program cant create files, which it uses for a database for the web site on Apache? In fact it can't even read from the database files?

Kind regards,
Jon

[dkeav]

get a better program and/or programmer ?

[Choozo]

A file permission issue?

[Joncamp]

With Apache, when it starts a cgi-bin program it does not load a shell, it runs the cgi-bin program directly. Without a shell environment the program can't access file system paths. When you use perl for cgi-bin it loads a shell, however c++ compiled programs do not load a shell.

The solution, if your cgi-bin needs file access, use perl with the system calls to execute your c++ cgi-bin program. That would be slow to start all those processes, so PHP is really a better choice.

[bwkaz]

Or, just do the CGI program in Perl or PHP, like a few people suggested when you said you were trying to do it in C++... :p