Hi everyone, I'm trying to connect to my MySQL databse with a perl script. This is on a GoDaddy shared server. Here is what I have: 
#!/usr/bin/perlml
 
use cPanelUserConfig;
 
use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;
 
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
 
#B1. Database name, table name, user name, and password
#respectively.  User name and password are case sensitive.
 my $dbase="***";
 my $tablename="***";
 my $username="***";
 my $mysqlpassword="***";
 
#These two should not need modified unless connecting to MySQL on
#a remote server or to a database platform other than MySQL.
 my $hostname="localhost";
 my $databaseserver="mysql";
 
use DBI;
say "Perl MySQL Connect Demo";
# MySQL database configuration
 
my $DSN = "dbi:mysql:$dbase:$hostname";
 
my $dbh = DBI->connect( $DSN, $username, $mysqlpassword ) or die "$DBI
+::errstr";
 
say "Connected to the MySQL database.";

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When I run this, I get a 500 internal server error. However, when I comment out line 30, the DBI->connect line, the script runs and the output says: "Perl MySQL Connect Demo Connected to the MySQL database." I have checked and the DBI and the MySQL modules are installed. I've searched and searched online, and tried a bunch of different formats, and can't get anything to work. Can anyone help? Thank you!

In reply to 500 internal server error when connecting to mysql database by mcfarnell

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