If it failed, I would expect to see a die/warn message in the output rather than blank. So it sounds like it's working.

Better yet is if you have shell access to the server, and then you can run it directly there and see no output: in the successful case, there is no output, so no output tells you it's successful.

It might be marginally easier for you if you were to produce some output to confirm that it is doing something, e.g., (this is untested - not even compiled): 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict; use warnings;
use DBI;
use CGI;

my $db="accountname_webapp";
my $host="localhost";
my $user="accountname_webadmi";
my $password="password"; 

my $q = CGI->new();
print $q->header();
print $q->start_html();
print $q->start_body();

my $dbh   = DBI->connect ("DBI:mysql:database=$db:host=$host",
                           $user,
                           $password) 
                           or print $q->p("Can't connect to database: 
+$DBI::errstr\n");

if ($dbh)
{
  print $q->p("Connected");
  $dbh->disconnect or print $q->p("Discconection error: $DBI::errstr")
+;
}

print $q->end_body();
print $q->end_html();

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Or something like that.

In reply to Re: Installing and Testing DBI by Tanktalus
in thread Installing and Testing DBI by Anonymous Monk

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