I've spent a bit over a day playing around and I'm inclined to believe you. Thanks for your response.

Your best bet is probably using a templated system that generates your config files right before the server starts

Interesting. I'd considered doing the template processing at "deployment time" but not during server startup. This could be what I'm after.

Why do you have mod_perl enabled on your main web server?
I don't, it just sounds that way. My setup is like yours without mod_php.

Thanks again, Brad