well, i changed the modperl.site.conf (that's loaded by the main httpd.conf via Include this morning to read as such:

PerlSetEnv PERL5LIB /home/httpd/website.com/libs

PerlModule RemoteAuthentication
PerlSetVar websitePath /testMemberArea/
PerlSetVar websiteLoginScript /apps/login.pl
PerlSetVar websiteDomain .website.com
PerlSetVar websiteExpires +1h
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and the VH.conf to read:

## These documents require user to be logged in.
<Directory /home/httpd/website.com/html/testMemberArea>
 AuthType RemoteAuthentication
 AuthName website
 PerlAuthenHandler RemoteAuthentication->authenticate
 PerlAuthzHandler RemoteAuthentication->authorize
 require valid-user
</Directory>
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and that looks right to me, but i still get:

 sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl configtest

Syntax error on line 7 of /etc/httpd/conf/VH/modperl.website.com:
Can't locate RemoteAuthentication.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/
+perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/per
+l5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5
+.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-l
+inux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/ven
+dor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/
+5.8.0 . /usr/ /usr/lib/perl) at (eval 7) line 3.
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i've tried things like:

PerlSetEnv PERL5LIB PERL5LIB:/home/httpd/website.com/libs
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to no avail ...