I want to split up my code in different files, by defining own modules. The output should be on a website. While the script, when executed on the console prints the right output (with no error), it gives following error in the browser:

The specified CGI application encountered an error and the server terminated the process.

Both files are in the same directory, i use windows-active state perl and i want to work with packages.

file hello-2.pl 

#!d:\perl\bin\perl.exe 
use warnings;
use strict;
use Hello; #this line causes the error
print"Content-type:text/html;charset=UTF-8\n\n" ;

Hello->hello();

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file Hello.pm 

#!d:\perl\bin\perl.exe 
use warnings;
use strict;

package Hello;
use Exporter;

my @ISA = ('Exporter');
my @EXPORT = ('hello');

sub hello {
  print "Hello, world\n";
}

1;

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Executed on the console it prints "hello, world". In the browser there is "The specified CGI application encountered an error and the server terminated the process." unless I remove the line "use Hello". So if I would delete the include of the hello package, it would work. What is wrong with "use Hello"?

In reply to cgi and own modules causing unspecified error by amitsq

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