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Asked: 2026-06-11T18:31:31+00:00

I am trying my hands for the first time in -> Apache – Perl

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I am trying my hands for the first time in -> Apache – Perl (CGI) on Ubuntu.

The Apache server is working fine in the folder /var/www for the default index.html file. But since I want to run a CGI script, I also installed (just in case) DBI, as suggested by some forums. I set the permissions for complete access to my cgi-bin folder in which the select.cgi script resides. I tried tweaking the select.cgi script multiple times redirecting the library to the Perl library, but to no avail. I modified the httpd.conf file and set the directory path to the select.cgi folder. That didn’t work. I also defined ScriptAlias, and set it to the working directory. That didn’t work either.
Does anyone have any helpful pointers. Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    In a comment, you gave information that contradicts what you gave originally. The latter information appears to be more reliable, so I’ll use it.

    I believe you said the path to the module is

    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/foo/bar/Connection.pm

    and that the error message you got (with line breaks added) is:

    Can't locate foo/bar/Connection.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
   /etc/perl
   /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2
   /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2
   /usr/lib/perl5
   /usr/share/perl5 
   /usr/lib/perl/5.14
   /usr/share/perl/5.14
   /usr/local/lib/site_perl
   .
   /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/foo/bar/
) at ...

    You did something like

    use foo::bar::Connection;

    or

    require "foo/bar/Connection.pm";

    Perl looked for

    • /etc/perl/foo/bar/Connection.pm
    • /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2/foo/bar/Connection.pm
    • …
    • /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/foo/bar/foo/bar/Connection.pm

    But none of those are

    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/foo/bar/Connection.pm

    It’s simple to fix. Add the following to your script:

    use lib '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5';

    The other possible fix is to use 

     use Connection;

    instead of

     use foo::bar::Connection;

    Which fix is the correct fix depends on what that package line in side the module looks like. If you find package foo::bar::Connection;, you need to modify @INC (as shown with use lib, for example). If you findpackage Connection;, you need to change theuse` directive.

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