Thanks for your comments.

...give the server some content to serve...

Agreed. I'm planning a further post on that. While not perl it may be worth first discussing where to put the content/scripts etc.

For instance, the default DocumentRoot I have is currently /opt/httpd/htdocs. I think I would prefer it out from under the feet of Apache under either the user or perhaps, looking ahead to more than one user updating the website, under /var/www/mydomain/perl and /var/www/mydomain/docroot.

Also not perl, how to handle particular directories that the Apache user could write to, for example a file upload directory under DocumentRoot and a directory that perl could write to e.g. sessions/logs. Perhaps consider setting up users and groups to help with the job.

And after sorting that out, some perl scripts. :-)

All that may have been a distraction so I decided not to cover it this time.