Driver: ExampleP Data Source is dbi:ExampleP:dir=. Driver: Proxy Driver: mysql #### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use DBI; BEGIN { $|=1; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; use CGI::Carp('fatalsToBrowser'); } my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:wwf', 'username', 'pass') || die "cant open db"; my $sql = "SELECT * FROM url WHERE rec_id = 1399863634"; my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $sql ); $sth->execute(); my $goodrow = $sth->fetchrow_hashref; $dbh->disconnect(); print "$goodrow->{'url'}";