Update: The problem is with the Scalar::Util version. Having an upto date version in the path didn't help.

Using CGI::Session with file storage has been fine.

On my local m/c I got an app working using MySQL as storage. I uploaded this to the webhoster and I got errors about missing CGI::S drivers (dbi, mysql). I 'installed' (copied) these from my m/c and then got an error about refaddr in Scalar::Util. I installed that too. No more errors but the sessions weren't being saved. :-(

Worse, now the previous app (file storage) behaved/failed the same way. Deleting the modules I'd copied over restored it to normal service.

I have production apps happily using MySQL and I'm also using modules I've copied to a local/private lib (e.g. CGI::Simple and HTML::Template). This leads me to believe it might be some version clash in the dependancy train.

I'm on WinXP and the webhoster is solaris. Could it be a platform issue?

How would monks go about tracking down a problem like this?

In reply to CGI::Session/MySQL dependancy/version woes by wfsp

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