I have made some progress (I think). I have installed Apache 1.3.28, ActivePerl 5.8.0, mod_perl 1.0, and MySQL 4.0.1. But I don't know -- in fact, I highly doubt -- that it's properly configured. (http://bko.homeip.net seems to work, which implies Apache is working.)

Of course, my terribly rusty understanding of Perl (which was limited to programming as it was) and complete lack of SQL knowledge is not making this any easier.