The file location

I need some help.

[adni18]

Is there a way to determine what the current file location is? (I need this for an error message, to determine what the file is that the user tried to access.)

[jollymcfats]

For CGI, the script name can be found in

$0

, or the URI to it in

$ENV{'SCRIPT_NAME'}

. $0 might bork if you're running mod_perl, I don't recall.

There's also

__FILE__

, a magic constant which is the full path to the file in which it is literally written.

print "This print is in file " . __FILE__ . "\n";

[adni18]

Well, I am using an error page, and whenever I access the error page, the address bar shows /error.cgi . Will this script get the page the user was trying to access?

[jollymcfats]

An error page like a custom 404 or error page?

Take a look in

$ENV{'REQUEST_URI'}

, that should contain the original URL that was requested.

[adni18]

Thanks.

[adni18]

I still get the location of the error file, and not the requested file, when I use $ENV{'REQUEST_URI'}. I get /error.cgi instead of /games/chooser/invalid.html