On June 1, 2004 1:47 pm, Alec Brecher wrote:
> kind of an apache2 crossover problem: when perl cgi scripts using dbi:db2
> are called I get the total enviroment failure error.
>
> I can run scripts using dbi:db2 from the shell without a problem. Can
> anyone offer some hints?
Set $ENV{DB2INSTANCE} in a BEGIN{} block, e.g.:
BEGIN { $ENV{DB2INSTANCE} = 'db2inst1' }
You may not need to do it in a BEGIN block, perhaps just doing it prior
to calling DBI->connect, but I've always just done it in BEGIN.
