You're missing two things:

1. As already mentioned, my vars are only visible within the same scope, pretty much no matter what you do. Use our instead if you want them to be visible in other packages or files.

2. Just changing my to our will allow you to reference the variables from your main program as $Config::database. If you want to be able to use just $database in the main program, then the Config module will need to export them, using Exporter: 

package Config;

use strict;
use warnings;

use base 'Exporter';
BEGIN {
  # Things to export by default - minimize this, if you use it at all
  our @EXPORT = qw( );
  # Things to export when the calling code requests them
  our @EXPORT_OK = qw( \$database \$tmplfile \$blog_title );
  # A handy way of grouping exported items
  our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( all => [ @EXPORT, @EXPORT_OK ] );
}

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

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The main program, then, would start off with 
#!/path/to/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use lib qw(/var/www/blogapp);
use Config qw($database, $tmplfile, $blog_name);
# or just
# use Config qw(:all);
# if you want everything the Config module exports

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In reply to Re: Using packages to store global configuration vars by dsheroh
in thread Using packages to store global configuration vars by fuzzyping

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