I've written a small cgi application that runs via mod_perl. In order to keep the main script maintainable, I want to move all of the global user settings to a separate file. I'd like to make it a perl package so that visitors are unable to read the file directly.

My first attempt was to move the vars into a new Config.pm file and call it from within my mod_perl startup.pl file. Unfortunately, it appears that the variables are not being imported to my namespace. Any suggestions on how to fix this (or do it better)?

The tail end of my startup.pl:

use lib qw(/var/www/blogapp);
use Config ();

1;

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Example from Config.pm:

my $database = 'data/site.db';
my $tmplfile = 'templates/index.html';
my $blog_title = 'example.com';

1;

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Error from webserver:

[Sat Sep  5 19:42:30 2009] [error] PerlRun: `HTML::Template->new() cal
+led with odd number of option parameters - should be of the form opti
+on => value at /blogapp/index.cgi line 13\n'

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Line 13 from index.cgi:

my $template = HTML::Template->new(filename => $tmplfile, die_on_bad_p
+arams => 0);

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-fp

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