Using 777 is always wrong (despite the fact that many howtos recommend it). 0770 is sufficient, as long as www is a member of the group owning the directory, and is safer.
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Use chown www /path/to/dir <br />
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and preferably put your app in /opt/app not in an ibay
*Wasn't mod_perl installed in previous versions? How do I install it?
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