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Old 04-20-2005, 11:14 AM Form Help
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Cannot get a response form to work on a site I just uploaded. I'm still very new at this - if anyone can offer any suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated.

I uploaded FormMail to my Interland VPS server in the cgi-bin of a virtual host I have setup called dbcfoundation.org. Below is the path and the information where FormMail is located:

File Path: ftp://usr122057130:@sumnergroup.com
/%2fusr/local/www/vhosts/dbcfoundation.org/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl

Below is the info I entered on the FormMail form (per Interland's setup instructions for FormMail):

$mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t -f
rbyrum@sumnergroup.com';

@referers = ('dbcfoundation.org','216.122.57.130');

Below is the info I entered on the html form:

<form action="http://dbcfoundation.org/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl" method="POST" name="intentlttr" id="intentlttr">
<input type=hidden name="recipient" value="rbyrum@sumnergroup.com">
<input type=hidden name="subject" value="Letter of Intent">

Okay - let me have it - WHAT DID I DO WRONG???

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Anybody have a clue?
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Old 04-21-2005, 01:10 PM
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Problem solved!!!!!!

Someone on another forum suggested that I change on Action on my html to read:

form action=". . . /cgi-bin/formmail.pl" INSTEAD of form action=" . . . /cgi-bin/FormMail.pl.

Case-wise it didn't match the form on my server (FormMail.pl), but I tried it anyway and presto - form works beautifully!

Now I want to know . . . WHY does it work? I was told by Interland tech support that if it is "FormMail" on my server, it should be "FormMail" in my html - anyone have a clue?
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Old 04-21-2005, 02:05 PM
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Sorry - but wrong again guys . . . I hadn't cleared my cache on my browser, so what I thought fixed the problem, didn't. After talking with the excellent technical support at Interland, here is my final solution. Hope this saves someone a couple of days of grief:

I used Fetch to ftp my FormMail.pl script to the cgi-bin on my server.
However, I did not know to "Set Permissions" when I did so.
In BBEdit, its simple:
• After you upload FormMail.pl to your cgi-bin, click once on it to make sure it is highlighted then,
• Go under "Remote" in the menu bar
• Select "Set Permissions"
• When the window pops up, make sure the owner has "Read, Write & Search/Execute" permissions, and "Group" and "Everyone" has "Read & Search/Execute" permissions.
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them darn permissions.... thank god for CHMOD
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