Greetings hesco,

I haven't tested this, but just looking briefly at your code, the first thing I'd try is to change the 8th line of cgiapp_init() to this:

my $dbh = $self->dbh();
my $result = auth_config($dbh);
# ...or instead, simply...
my $result = auth_config($self->dbh());
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Inside your sub dbh, you shift off the first element of @_, but calling dbh() directly means you're not passing anything into the sub. Calling $self->dbh() will fix this.