Hello fellow monks, I am still learning this interesting language we call Perl and am looking for some assistance (again). I want to get some information out of a file on the server that I can then check input from a HTML form against. For example if UserX enters "Star" into text field 'INPUT1' and then "Wars" into 'INPUT2', I would then like to check that these inputs match two fields in a Config file. I have made some dummy code below, the problem I am getting is when I call the PARSEINFO package, and specifically when I use Config::IniFiles. I have commented out everything except for the below code in the PARSEINGO package:

#!c:\Perl\bin\perl
use warnings;
use strict;
package PARSEINFO;
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and have had no problems. Also in the actual code it all compiles fine. The problem I get is that I receive a Internal Server Error as soon as I uncomment "use Config::IniFiles;". My test code is:

#!c:\Perl\bin\perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use PARSEINFO;
use GUI;
use CGI qw(:standard);

use constant PASS => 1;
my $i_input1 = param('INPUT1');
my $i_input2 = param('INPIT2');
my %data;

&PARSEINFO::ParseConfigFileToHash( 'c:\inifile.ini', \%data );
if( ($i_input1 eq $data{input1}) && ($i_input2 eq $data{input2}) ) {
    if( ($i_input2) || ($i_input1) ) {
        my @args = ("../bin/Script.exe", $i_input1, $i_input2);
        system(@args);
        my $result = $? >>8;
        if ( $result == PASS) {
            &GUI::HtmlDoc1();
        } else {
            &GUI::HtmlDoc2();
        }
    } else {
        &GUI::HtmlDoc3();
    }
} else {
    &GUI::HtmlDoc2();
}
    
exit (0);
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and my PARSEINFO package (PARSEINFO.pm) code is:

#!c:\Perl\bin\perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Config::IniFiles;
package PARSEINFO;


sub ParseConfigFileToHash {
    my $ini_file = shift; 
    my $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new( -file => $ini_file );
    my $hashref = shift;
    $hashref->{input1}        = $cfg->val( 'SETTINGS', 'INPUT1');
    $hashref->{input2}        = $cfg->val( 'SETTINGS', 'INPUT2');
}


sub OutputConfigFile{
    my $ini_file = shift; 
    my $newConfigFile = Config::IniFiles->new( );
    $newConfigFile->SetFileName( $ini_file );
    my $hashref = shift;
    my $sectionName = 'SETTINGS';
    $newConfigFile->newval( $sectionName, 'INPUT1',        $hashref->{
+input1} );
    $newConfigFile->newval( $sectionName, 'INPUT2',        $hashref->{
+input2} );
    $newConfigFile->RewriteConfig();
    $newConfigFile->WriteConfig( $ini_file );
}

1;
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I know that the GUI Package works fine and the HTMLDOC1, 2 and 3 all have no problems. Thank you in adavnce for any assistance you can offer.

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