Absolute Path errors

Tonigth i chnages the scheme of my perl webpage

instead of having index.html redirect to cgi-bin\index.pl

i set in httpd.conf DirectoryIndex index.html cgi-bin/index.pl

but all links to other ple scripts inside my index.pl not workign any
more cause thye y were relative.

Then i changed them alla links to files an folders to absolute
startinf with a leading / (d:\www which is my DocumentRoor)

Now script can work but

but statements like :

my @files = glob "/data/text/*.txt";

and

my @tips;
open FILE, "/data/text/tips.txt" or die $!;
@tips = <FILE>;
close FILE;

arent opening files or loading them into arrays.

The paths though to files ae correct.

I just dont see the error.

all these after i removes the js file to pointing to index.pl and set
DirectoryIndex isntead.