in reply to Meditation: In front of my nose

If you mean Perl Monks is literally a larger version of your current project, you might want to check out the Everything Engine, which is what powers Perl Monks.

Of course, you might be speaking figuratively, and merely suggesting that the concept merits further meditation.

In case you were wondering what that all-powerful 'index.pl' file is, the one that shows up in virtually every URL on this site. Well, here it is (at least for my install):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Everything::HTML; # >>> Extra Packages # <<< Extra Packages #syntax is "dbname[:user:passwd:host]" mod_perlInit "every:every:XXXXX:";