[Tutor] WTF?!?

[Kirk Bailey]

Ok, we upgraded critter; bigger drives, new(er) mother board, more 
memory, actually sprouted some hairs on his teenage chest. HOWEVER, we 
also upgraded to current Python- and FreeBSD. Straightaway we had 
heacdaches.

And we fixed them. Permissions are a little different. ALSO, my page 
counters stopped working.

Here's the old script:
#!/usr/local/bin/python
#
#
f1=open("count",'r')
count=int(f1.readline())
f1.close()
count=count+1
result=str(count)
print result
f1=open("count",'w')
f1.write(result+"\r\n")
f1.close

the file count stores the page hit count; it is stored in the cgi-bin 
with the program.

Ok, it stopped wortking. FIRST off we check permissions. ok, minor 
quibbles, fix. Loog now says cannot find file 'count'. ok, we go in 
and execute from comand line, it works perfect.

Hmmm, had something like this before. Turns out that when you run a 
program via the web server, it is now defaulting to the root dir for 
that domain name (criter holds several domains, each with it's own 
seperate directory tree structure including a web cgi-bin).

ok, I noticed one site in the box was counting. THE FILE WAS IN THE 
QRONG PLACE. It was in the root directory for that site. hmmm, put it 
in the 'right' place, it stops working. 'Default dir' is indeed the 
root for the website as defined by the domain table in the apache 
configuration.

ok, here is the updated counter:

#!/usr/local/bin/python
#
#
f1=open("./cgi-bin/count",'r')
count=int(f1.readline())
f1.close()
count=count+1
result=str(count)
print result
f1=open("./cgi-bin/count",'w')
f1.write(result+"\r\n")
f1.close

And it works just peachy. Now, did this arise due to changes in 
python, or in FreeBSD?


So this is the current working version:

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