Beyond the excellent suggestions offered by kschwab, I'd suggest you configure perl_mod/apache to use scripts from a separate directory. Only store scripts in the perl_mod directory that you want to run via perl_mod... this way you can be assured your script is being compiled by mod_perl, rather than as a normal cgi. If you're having problems configuring your httpd.conf, here's a snippet from mine. Note that I'm using DSO modules... if your mod_perl is compiled into Apache, ignore the IfModule directive. 
PerlModule Apache::DBI
PerlTaintCheck On

<IfModule mod_perl.c>
    Alias /p /var/www/p
    <Directory /var/www/p>
        SetHandler perl-script
        PerlHandler Apache::Registry
        Options +ExecCGI
    </Directory>
</IfModule>

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Good Luck!

-fp

In reply to Re: How can i tell if mod_perl is working? by fuzzyping
in thread How can i tell if mod_perl is working? by nmerriweather

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