Thank you for the suggestion. I tried it as well as the one below but still the blank page.

I guess I'll have to try it via shell access. I think I can get shell access if I can find the last part of the cpanel URL. My host recently removed some of the cpanel links and disabled the direct cpan module installation--probably time to find a new host. 

#!/usr/bin/perl


use strict;

use CGI qw(:all);
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );
use Mysql;

use DBI;  # Here's how to include the DBI module 

print ("Content-Type: text/html\n\n");

$DB_Host = "localhost";
$DB_Name = "username_webapp";
$DB_User = "username_webadmi";
$DB_Password = "password";

print "Trying to connect to MySQL DB<br>";
if (!($dbh = Mysql->Connect($DB_Host,$DB_Name,$DB_User,$DB_Password)))
{
   print "Could Not Connect to Database! Reason: ".($Mysql::db_errstr)
+;
   exit;
}
print "Successful MySQL DB Connection";
exit 0;

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