The way I normally do it, is use HTML::Template, so you have a Error page template, then just load error message into it.

Template: 
<hmtl>
  <head>
    <title> Error <!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="err" --></title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <H1>Error <!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="err" --> Occured</H1><BR>
    Explanation: <!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="Explain" -->
  </body>
</html>

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Perl Code: 
use strict;
use CGI;
use HTML::Template;

my $cgi = new CGI;
my $template = HTML::Template->new(
                  filename => 'error.tmpl',
                  associate => $cgi,
                  die_on_bad_params => 0
              );
                 
my $explanation = &get_explanation($cgi->param('err'));
$template->param(Explain => $explanation);
print $cgi->header(), $template->output();

sub get_explanation{
  my $err = $_[0];
  ##Get Explanation
}

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In reply to Re: Catching Apache error with a Perl script by tcf22
in thread Catching Apache error with a Perl script by TheProphet

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