Thanks to those who helped out with this. Nobody quite got the case of beer, but here's the final form, just in case anyone ever needs something similar to this in the future. It's pretty ugly still (and I know there are some better ways for some of this), but I could see it being useful in ISP/hosting situations. //Thomas Thomas K. Burkholder [EMAIL PROTECTED] <IfModule mod_perl.c> PerlInitHandler Apache::StatINC PerlModule Apache::DBI <perl> use IO::File; use Data::Dump; # use Apache::PerlSections (); # convert this to per-user match later while(my ($name,undef,undef,undef,undef,undef,undef,$dir) = getpwent()) { my $filename = "$dir/perl/mod_perl_setup"; my $file = IO::File->new("< $filename"); if ($file) { my $inc = ''; $_ = <$file>; s/(.*)\s*=\s*(.*)\s*$/$inc = "$1 $2"/e; my $pv = ''; $_ = <$file>; s/(.*)\s*=\s*(.*)\s*$/$pv = "$1 $2"/e; while (<$file>) { my ($key, $value); s/(.*)\s*=\s*(.*)\s*$/($key, $value) = ($1,$2)/e; # print "mapping $key to $value\n"; my %loc = ( PerlSetEnv => $inc, PerlSetVar => $pv, SetHandler => 'perl-script', PerlHandler => $value ); $Location{"$name/public_perl/$key"} = \%loc; } $file->close(); } } # print Apache::PerlSections->dump; endpwent(); </perl> </IfModule>