Greetings oh wise ones ...

I'm a bit lost on this problem and not sure where the error actually is.

I have a public private key pair which I have defined in a file thusly

package Keys;
require Exporter;
@ISA=qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT_OK=qw(PUBLIC_KEY PRIVATE_KEY);

use warnings;
use strict;

use constant PUBLIC_KEY       => 'public key here';
use constant PRIVATE_KEY      => 'private key here';

1;
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I have this outside the server tree structure and have written this code to test loading the keys

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

use lib "/absolute/path/to/directory/containing/keys/pm/file";
use Keys qw(PRIVATE_KEY PUBLIC_KEY);

use CGI;
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print PRIVATE_KEY."\n";
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From the command line it works. The header and key are printed out.

When I attempt to run it from a web page I get this error

BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/www/herlug.org.uk/test/recaptcha/challenge/trykeys.pl line 7

which happenes to be the 'use Keys ..;' line

and I go ... ? ...

I'm searching through the CGI docs on the basis this may be a CGI related thing I'm not yet aware of but have not yet found a possible solution.

Of course, I could be heading in completely the wrong direction, so if anyone knows what's up and can explain it to me I'd be very pleased to read it.