linux:~ # rcapache2 restart
Syntax OK
Shutting down httpd2 (waiting for all children to terminate)          done
Starting httpd2 (prefork) startproc:  exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork: 1
                                                                      failed

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use HTML::Template;
use File::Find;

print STDERR "Pre-loading HTML Templates...\n";
find(
     sub {
       return unless /\.tmpl$/;
       HTML::Template->new(
                           filename => "$File::Find::dir/$_",
                           cache => 1,
                          );
     },
     '/srv/www/htdocs/home/'
);

PerlRequire /srv/www/cgi-bin/startup.pl

<FilesMatch "(index|thumb)\.pl$">
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry
    Options +ExecCGI
</FilesMatch>