Thank you Beech, will play around with the code you pasted as well. For now I managed to get it to work using the following - 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

#my $location ="/location2.html";
my $location ="/";
my $file_name ='pconn.conf';
my $conf_new ;
my $max_connections=10;
$/ = undef;

#Open file for reading and slurp into file
open (FILE, "< $file_name") or die $!;
my $file = <FILE>;
close FILE;

# check for the block we want
if ($file =~ m/\<Location\ $location.+?\<\/Location\>/s){
    my $first=$`;  #Everything before matched string
    my $block = $&; #Matched block
    my $second=$'; #Everything after matched string
    if($block =~ s/MaxConnPerIP\s*(.+?)*/MaxConnPerIP $max_connections
+/g) {
        $conf_new= $first . $block . $second;
    }
}

# Open file for writing and dump matched and unmatched block
open (OUTFILE, "> $file_name.tmp") or die "cannot open $file_name.tmp 
+for write $!";
print OUTFILE $conf_new;
close OUTFILE;

# save copy of original file
rename ($file_name,"$file_name.bak")  || die "problem with rename $!";
# replace original with the modified version
rename ("$file_name.tmp", $file_name) || die "problem with rename $!";

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