You can't access things like $ENV{REMOTE_HOST} because the environment variables are set on a per-process base, and there should be only one fastcgi instance per apache process, not per request.

All this information is encapsulated in the CGI::Fast objects, so don't throw that object away as you do now in the header of your while-loop, but assign it to a variable instead.

I don't know why your counter isn't increased, though.