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What Is the Path to the PERL and public_html Folder

PERL is a high-level programming language. It is widely used in the development of website application. If you want to access and configure the server-side scripting for your website. Or even access to your website’s files. You can do so by using the path directory in this article for PERL and public_html folder.

Access to PERL

Use this path to get direct access to your PERL directory.

  • #!/usr/bin/perl -w

Or you can use:


  • #!/usr/local/bin/perl

Access to public_html

Use this path to get direct access to your public_html folder.

  • "public_html" or "~/public_html"

Alternative ways to access files on your web hosting account are via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) access or via your File Manager.

Remember, before making any changes on either of these folders, we recommend saving a backup copy of your website files. If there are any server errors while updating files in these directories. You can easily restore your website files to the previous version. Please let us know if you need any further assistance, or if you have any questions. We’d love to help!

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