I'm trying to get a small CGI script to save information from an HTML form to a database, but I keep getting errors from the DBI->connect call. What's more puzzling is that my script runs fine from the command line. Even more puzzling, DBI::errmsg is undefined after the connect call fails. My script is pretty straight forward: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use DBI;

#connect to DB
$dbHandle = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:mydb','ID','pw');

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The error found in error_log is: 
DBI->connect(ID) failed: Access denied for user:
'ID@localhost' (Using password: YES) at
/home/user/website/cgi-bin/script.pl line 33

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The user name and password are valid for the database, since everything works fine if I run the script from the command line. It only fails when I run it through CGI.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Phemur

In reply to DBI connection through CGI by Phemur

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