Hello Again. New To Perl. I have Perl script that just connects to database. It works fine running at the Perl prompt but does not run through localhost. It gets this error in the Appache log:
"Mal formed header from script. Bad header:connect to masslottery_db". 
#!C:\perl\bin\perl -w
# Script: connectdbtest.pl Test To Connect To A Database.
use strict;
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:masslottery_db", "root", "system1");
 die "Connect to masslottery_db failed: " . DBI->errstr() unless $dbh;
 print "connect to masslottery_db successful!\n";
 
$dbh->disconnect();

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I have other test scripts that do run through localhost but all they do is print a message. They don't do anything with DBI.

Should I be looking at some sort of setting for Apache? Thank you.

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