Katie,

Good to hear that you solved the issue. Although this wouldn't have solved your particular issue, I find that wrapping the heart of a CGI script in an eval block can help while debugging (and prevent trips back and forth to the error log). 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use lib qw(/home/kmiller/lib/);

eval {
use HTML::Template;

my $that_famous_string = "Hello, World!";
my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename=>'test.tmpl');

$template->param(THAT_FAMOUS_STRING=>$that_famous_string);

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

print $template->output;
}
if ($@) {
print "<PRE>$@</PRE>"
}

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Especially since HTML::Template tends to make use of exceptions (die()) when it encounters errors. This traps them and spits them out to the browser as opposed to the error log.

-stvn

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

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