If a simple (working) demo would be useful, some time back I wrote a tutorial showing how to create a basic login page:

A Beginners Guide to CGI::Application

If you want file-based sessions, change this part of Login.pm: 

CGI_SESSION_OPTIONS => [
"driver:mysql;serializer:Storable;id:md5",
$self->query, {Handle => $self->dbh},
],

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To this: 

CGI_SESSION_OPTIONS => [
"driver:File",
$self->query, {Directory => "/tmp/sessions"},
],

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Then, assuming your web server runs as 'nobody', do this: 

mkdir /tmp/sessions
chown nobody:nobody /tmp/sessions
cmod 755 /tmp/sessions

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One final gotcha - make sure you've got all the same versions of all your modules being used on both servers. I try to install on my modules locally, then I can just tar up the modules directory and copy it to a new server, and be sure that I'm running the exact same (noncore) stuff everywhere.

In reply to Re^3: session file umask by scorpio17
in thread session file umask by ksublondie

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