I'd suggest moving the whole module loading into something like
conf/startupl.pl:
--8<--
#use DBI;
#use DBD::mysql;
#use CGI ':cgi-lib';
#use CGI::Cookie;
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
use Socket;
use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);
use GDBM_File;
use Fcntl;
use Compress::Zl
Disclaimer: I don't know much perl :) I've got a client who's running an OLD version of apache 1.3 and would like to migrate to apache2. They had someone set up their site long ago and he is now elsewhere. They have this in their apache2.conf (running on Debian Sarge) and it's resulting this err