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I'm trying to connect to a MySQL database. The connection works in a Perl script I run on the command line, but it fails in an HTML::Mason page executed by mod_perl.

I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.6, Perl 5.8.8, mod_perl 2.0.4, MySQL 5.0.45, DBI 1.607, DBD::mysql 4.010. Here's the code:

use DBI;
my $dbsrc = 'DBI:mysql:test:localhost';
my %attr  = ( PrintError => 0, RaiseError => 0 );
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dbsrc, 'mboudreau', 'secret', \%attr) or die "
+$DBI::err
str";
$dbh->disconnect;

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and here's the error message I get:

Can't locate auto/DBI/connect.al in @INC (@INC contains: /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Network/Library/Perl /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1 . /usr) at /Users/mrb/Sites/mason_mysql_test.mhtml line 17

I've searched my computer (sudo find / -name connect.al -print) for 'connect.al' and it's nowhere to be found. I've reinstalled DBI and DBD::mysql, no errors, no luck. Googling for this error message turns up a lot of people who had typos in their connection statement, but I don't think that's the case here (identical code works fine in a command-line script). Any guidance?

In reply to DBI error under mod_perl by mboudreau

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