Having trouble writing to file in different directory

[dreaming of nascar]

For some reason I am having trouble writing to a file that is in another directory. This is a code snippet:
open (FILE, ">../Test.txt");
print FILE "This text is now replaced in a DIFFERENT directory!";
close (FILE);

I cannot get this to work!

Yes, I do want the information in the file currently (before this is run) to be erased (that is why I have '>' instead of '>>'). I have made sure that directory and file are writable. I hope that someone can help me out with this.
Also, when I put "¦¦ die '...';" after the open file statement my script will not run.

Any help with these siuations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

D O N

[mack]

Does it work with "fopen"?

Bit of a long shot ;-)

Mack.

[dreaming of nascar]

I tried that and it does not seem to do the trick.

[amoore]

The user that your webserver runs as probably doesn't have permissions to write to that other directory. You probably ought to "chown" it to that user.

Also, you can use "perl -c" to discover syntax errors like your problem with "die".