perl file permissions problem

My server is running as user 'apache', I am logged in as root.

I have a world read / write able file in a directory tree (that is world read write able all the way through) ' /var/www/html/tmpl/control.tmpl '

Perl gives me a permission denied error when I try to open the file. Thought the web browser
( When I run the script from the command line it works )

I have tried the follow in the httpd.conf

<Directory "/var/www/html/tmpl">
Options Indexes Include FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Allow from all
Order deny,allow
</Directory>

I've also tried the same thing using <Location>

I've tried setting the /tmpl directory owner to apache, and tried setting the control.tmpl owner to directory.

Still no success.

Any common caveats that I'm completly over-looking?

I believe the problem is in the order of these statements:


You allow access to everyone, and then change it right back to denying access to everyone.

I believe if you switch it to:

it will work.