I'd feel remiss if I didn't update this node with a completed answer. (Thanks to Zaxo for the confirmation about the filesystem path.) I wasn't sure of the filesystem path on the hosting server, so I used a snippet of super-searched code from The Environment variable for URL... to find the path, which I then used in my code.
my $path = "/web_dir/web_sub_dir/";
my $filepath = "D:\\my_ip_address\\web_dir\\web_sub_dir\\";
#Calls to database, data-fetching snipped
#Determine if the image file exists
    $photo=$Data{ID}.'.jpg';
    $fn = $filepath.$photo;
        if (-e $fn) {
            $image = "$path$photo";
                     }
        else {
                  $image = $path."DefaultPhoto.gif";
             }
##Snipped HTML display, etc....

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This works the way I need it to and displays the image if it is available or the default "no photo available" image if not. Thanks, Monks, for the assistance.
WB

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: CGI-SQL-HTML-Display "no image" by WhiteBird
in thread CGI-SQL-HTML-Display "no image" by WhiteBird

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