Problem with mod_perl and DBI/DBD::Oracle LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not being recognized?

We've set a Directory directive for some perl scripts, setting a mod_perl handler:

Alias /card_access /home/allwebfiles/perl/catcard

 <Directory /home/allwebfiles/perl/catcard>
     SetHandler perl-script
     PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry
     PerlOptions +ParseHeaders
     Options +ExecCGI
     PerlSetEnv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib
     PerlSetEnv ORACLE_HOME /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64
 </Directory>

The %ENV variable is there, if I print the %ENV values:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH --> /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib
MOD_PERL --> mod_perl/2.0.4
MOD_PERL_API_VERSION --> 2
ORACLE_HOME --> /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64
PATH --> /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin

But trying to initialize a DBI database connection results in the following error:

[Mon Oct 21 10:10:37 2013] [error] install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load '/usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so' for module DBD::Oracle: libocci.so.11.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 200.\n at (eval 11) line 3\nCompilation failed in require at (eval 11) line 3.\nPerhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected\n at /home/allwebfiles/perl/catcard/oratest.pl line 9\n

Which is precisely the error you get when LD_LIBRARY_PATH is unset or incorrect. 

libocci.so.11.1 is where it's supposed to be.

[root@merthiolate catcard]# ls -l /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib
total 185016
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       368 Sep 17  2011 glogin.sql
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root        17 May 20 12:07 libclntsh.so -> libclntsh.so.11.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  52761218 Sep 17  2011 libclntsh.so.11.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7955322 Sep 17  2011 libnnz11.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root        15 May 20 12:07 libocci.so -> libocci.so.11.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1971762 Sep 17  2011 libocci.so.11.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118408281 Sep 17  2011 libociei.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    164836 Sep 17  2011 libocijdbc11.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1503303 Sep 17  2011 libsqlplusic.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1477446 Sep 17  2011 libsqlplus.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2095661 Sep 17  2011 ojdbc5.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2714016 Sep 17  2011 ojdbc6.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    300666 Sep 17  2011 ottclasses.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     66779 Sep 17  2011 xstreams.jar

The path is correct, the script works fine on the command line, and if I comment out the handler directives in the perl.conf script, put in a ScriptAlias and process the script as a normal CGI script, it also works.

I'm confident the issue doesn't have anything to do with DBI or DBD::Oracle.

It ONLY fails when the script is executed as a mod_perl handler. 

The script itself is very simple; all I do is create a database handle and if no error is thrown, print 'It works'.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use DBI;
use strict;

my $login="xxxxxx";
my $dbpass='xxxxxxxx';
my $dbname="host=xxx.xxx.xxx.xx;sid=xxx";
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:$dbname", $login, $dbpass, {RaiseError =>1});

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "It Works";
exit;

(and this is just a test , any script using DBI fails with this error.)

What am I missing?

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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