Some more information regarding my environment. Perl uses a DBI module to talk to sqlite. My connection code: <code> sub DBconnect { my ($dsn,$dbhost,$dbname,$dbuser,$dbpasswd,$host_name); if ($Locale eq "Local") { $host_name="localhost"; $dbname="/Volumes/femto/FemtoDocuments/MyDB/tunes3.db"; $dsn = "DBI:SQLite:$dbname:$host_name"; # data source name $dbh=DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:$dbname","","",{RaiseError=>1,PrintError=>1,sqlite_unicode=>1,sqlite_allow_multiple_statements=>1}) or die "Connect to database failed."; } } # DBconnect </code> Locally a run Apache server.