[NTLUG:Discuss] apache 2.0 and css

Wed May 21 11:58:35 CDT 2003

we're installing a new server (mandrake 9.1 w/apache 2.0), and
we're having a small problem.  one of the programmers wants to
keep the css files in the same directory as his cgi; this works
with earlier versions of apache but refuses to properly link to
the css file on this server.  here is the code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );
use CGI ':all';

$mycss  = "bill.css";

print header;
print <<this;
<html>
  <head>
     <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="$mycss" />
     <!--
       <style type="text/css">
         .normal
font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#f00000;font-weight:bold;t
ext-align:left;}
       </style>
     -->
  </head>
  <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
  <form name="form1" method="post" action="">
    <span class="normal">
      Hi, Bill!
    </span>
  </form>
  </body>
</html>
this

and here is the css file:

.normal
{font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#f00000;font-weight:bold;
text-align:left;}

can anyone tell me why this works for earlier versions of apache
when linking, but only works as inline code for apache 2.0?  both
files are in /var/www/cgi-bin/

any help is greatly appreciated.

joe