Okay. I have MySQL and Apache installed on a Gentoo box. I have a script that uses the following to insert data into a MySQL database. 
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBH:mysql:dbname=router:host=localhost","usern
+ame","passwd", {'RaiseError' => 1 });

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and it works just fine. I confirm the data is entered by poking around MySQL. It goes off w/o a hitch.

Now, in my cgi script that I will use to display this info, I connect with the exact same line, AND I'm connecting from the exact same machine, but I get this error in the browser. 
Can't connect(DBH:mysql:dbname=router:host=localhost username passwd H
+ASH(0x827b5ac)), no database driver specified and DBI_DSN env var not
+ set at /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/first.pl line 10

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I looked around on Google, but none of the hits I came up w/ offered a very good solution. Basically, the only thing different in the two scripts is the user running them.

Thanks.

In reply to more MySQL fun by GaijinPunch

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