I finally went through the error logs (I swear they weren't where they were supposed to be, then next time I check - there they are!).

I tried to find a simple sample script to make sure my DBI connection works and then I would build on it from there. But alas, I could find nothing. So I took the simplest test script I could find and try to make it work. I'm almost there. It appears my last hurdle is finding out how to name a table in an Excel CSV file that was never given one. Here's where I'm at:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
     
    use strict;
    use DBI;
    use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
    use CGI qw (:standard);
    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
    
  my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:CSV:f_dir=/cgi-bin/Book1") or die "Can't
+ connect to Book1: $DBI::errstr";
     $dbh->{'csv_tables'}->{'info'} = {'col_names' => ["timestamp", "e
+mail", "name", "address", "city", "state", "zip"]};
  my $sth = $dbh->prepare( q{SELECT email FROM info WHERE state = ? })
+ or die "Can't prepare statement: $DBI::errstr";

  my $rc = $sth->execute ('OH') or die "Can't execute statement: $DBI:
+:errstr";

  print "Query will return $sth->{NUM_OF_FIELDS} fields.\n\n";
  print "Field names: @{ $sth->{NAME} }\n";

  while (my @result = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
        print "@result\n";
  }
  # check for problems which may have terminated the fetch early
  die $sth->errstr if $sth->err;

  $dbh->disconnect;

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It returns an error (ToBrowser) "Cannot open /cgi-bin/Book1/info: No such file or directory"

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: DBI Help! by peppiv
in thread DBI script gives HTTP 500 error by peppiv

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