I had to make the following adjustments to the code for Windows/Apache:

(1) Change the session to YAML

#set 'session'      => 'Simple';
set 'session'      => 'YAML';

(2) Adjust the path for request->base:

#   $tokens->{'css_url'} = request->base . 'css/dancr.css';
    $tokens->{'css_url'} = request->base . '/css/dancr.css';

Everything with the app works as expected *except* for the "$flash message" code:

my $flash;

sub set_flash($message) {
    my $message = shift;

    $flash = $message;
}

sub get_flash {
    my $message = $flash;
    $flash = '';
   
    return $message;
}

I suspect that since these subs are outside a route, perhaps I'm getting an effect about the scope of the variables... but calls to these subroutines do *not* set $flash or $message as expected:

   template 'show_entries.tt', {
   'msg' => get_flash,

   set_flash('New entry posted!');

   set_flash('You are logged in.');

   set_flash('You are logged out.');

For each of these, the $flash variable (which is a free-standing global in the module) is never set... and so the get_flash sub never returns a value.

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