OK -- so i have mod_perl set up, created a startup.pl that looks something like this:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;

use lib qw( /webcontent/server_home/rentsavers/test );

$ENV{MOD_PERL} or die "not running mod_perl!:  $! \n";

use Apache::Registry;

use Apache::DBI ();
use DBI ();
# Initialize the database connections for each child
Apache::DBI->connect_on_init
   ("DBI:mysql:database=test;host=localhost",
   "testuser",
   {
    PrintError => 1, # warn() on errors
    RaiseError => 0, # don't die on error
    AutoCommit => 1, # commit executes immediately
   }
  );

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from reading the perldoc, the online guide, and Writing Apache Modules w/ Perl and C ... i can use DBI normally in a handler, and the caching, etc is transparent. but i'm not seeing anything DBI-related with this handler:

package My::Greeting;
  use strict;

  use Apache::Constants qw(OK);
  use Data::Dumper;
  use DBI;

  sub handler {
      my $r = shift;
      my $now = scalar localtime;
      my $server_name = $r->server->server_hostname;

      $r->send_http_header('text/plain');

      print <<EOT;
  Thanks for visiting $server_name.
  The local time is $now.
EOT

      my $DBH || DBI->connect( "dbi:mysql:localhost", "rentsaver", "ro
+ot" ) ;

      Dumper( $DBH );
      return OK;
  }

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am i missing something really obvious? or is there a bigger problem?

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