I wrote a small test script ... and executed it from the command line without incident.

That puts you ahead of most people who run into this error, and narrows the field significantly.

If you have access to the server error logs, look there first. If you're having to install modules locally, you might not have access. That sucks, but it's survivable.

I suspect you're running into an indirect permission error, possibly from   use lib qw(/home/kmiller/lib/); Whatever user Apache is running under might not have individual or group permissions to see into /home/kmiller/lib/. If that's the case, then any modules you have there (e.g., HTML::Template, if you've installed it locally) will be ignored. The resulting failure to locate a module might cause an internal server error. So check permissions, and verify that that directory, and the modules in it, are visible to and readable by whatever user Apache is running as.

In reply to Re: HTML::Template / Apache problem. by dws
in thread HTML::Template / Apache problem. by DigitalKitty

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