Form Mail widget not working in iWeb 09

Question

The FormMail widget that was working in iWeb 08 is no longer working in iWeb 09. Any ideas on what is wrong?
Thanks,
roxpat

Answer 1

I got your message, but my email server won't let me reply to your address. Don't know why.
Anyway, I'm not sure what you mean you copied and pasted the code into a new page. Did you copy some code into a new document and name it with a .pl extension?
The formmail script that I've been using for years and is widely available from many sites is named "nms formmail" and it is a PERL script. The file's name ends with a .pl extension. You have to customize it for your uses, as far as the email referrer's and the email addresses you want the form on your site to be able to send to.
After you customize the formmail.pl script, you ftp it into the cgi-bin directory that is provided by your site hosting company, on their server. You can't do this with iWeb. You have to make sure the permissions on the cgi-bin folder and file are set to 755 (you can do this by getting info in CyberDuck.
Now you build the form in some program (I use Dreamweaver), but look around and there are other programs that can do this. After the form is set up properly, to post to the perl script, with the proper hidden fields that control the recipient number, the required fields, field order, etc, you copy and paste the code for the form into an HTML widget that's been placed on your Contact page in iWeb and upload the changed page.
When all of these conditions are met, perfectly, you can have a form on a page that can accept user input, and that gets emailed to an address you choose, without having any email addresses on a page for the spambots to find.
Now, there are other ways to do this, but when you mentioned formmail I assumed you were using either the original FormMail.pl file from "Matt's Scripts" or the newer more secure version named "NMS FormMail".
If that's not the case, then maybe you can provide a link to this "FormMail" site that you went to so that we can determine what you are using and trying to do.
Sorry for the confusion, but there are so many ways to configure these sites that I can't take anything for granted. Based on the graphic of your "Site" folder layout, you don't appear to be using iWeb's built-in ftp so you may need to make some changes, like duplicating the cgi-bin directory from the online site, putting your perl script into it, then upload your site in such a way that you don't change the directory structure for the online site.