FormMail Contact Form Coding Issue

Question

Hi folks - this maybe quite a lengthly issue - however i
think it is a simple mistake somewhere
Basically I am having problem getting my submit contact form
to work.
I used the FormMail.pl script.
www.kme-steelworks.co.uk is the website I am trying to apply
the form.
I am using 123 reg server to host the site.
If you look at my homepage above . you will see the fields of
the form at the bottom of the index/home page.
I am seeing problems when I fill in the form.I have opted for
cgi/FormMail format.
Error arising when i click submit - 500 Internal Server Error
This error tends to be a permission error on the root folder
- I have adjusted the right however to 755 but internal server
error still occurring.
The submit form results should be going to
[email protected] - but it isnt
the FormMail.pl is stored on my local files in
myweb/FormMail/FormMail.pl so I created a folder on your host
server called FormMail and put my FormMail.pl file in here so it
matched.
Ok so here is my form code on my homepage
<form id="form1" method="post"
action="FormMail/FormMail.pl">
<form action="/FormMail/FormMail.pl" method="post">
<input type='hidden' name="recipient"
value="[email protected]"/>
<input type='hidden' name="subject" value="KME WEB
CUSTOMER"/>
<input type='hidden' name="required" value=""/>
<input type='hidden' name="redirect"
value="www.kme-steelworks.co.uk/thankyou.html">
<label>Name:
<input name="Name" type="text" id="Name" size="35" />
</label>
<label>Phone Number:
<input name="Phone" type="text" id="Phone" maxlength="28"
/>
</label>
<p> </p>
<p>
<label>Comments (Optional):
<textarea name="comments" id="comments" cols="45"
rows="7"></textarea>
</label>
</p>
<p>
<label>
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit"
value="Submit" />
</label>
</p>
<p> </p>
</form>
What should my pl code look like if my server domain is
123reg.co.uk - my website form address is
www.kme-steelworks.co.uk my thank you page (when submit form
submits successfully is
www.kme-steelworks.co.uk/thankyou.html and the email address
I want the results forwarded to is '[email protected]'
I realise this may look like a tough post but I just dont get
why it is not posting?
Should the script be named with a cgi extension as the server
is not compatible with perl, and be placed in the cgi-bin folder?
Any help is hugely appreciated
Brian
Come on the Irish

Answer 1

clann26 posted in macromedia.dreamweaver:
> Hi folks - this maybe quite a lengthly issue - however i
think it
> is a simple mistake somewhere
>
> Basically I am having problem getting my submit contact
form to
> work. I used the FormMail.pl script.
[snip]
> What should my pl code look like if my server domain is
> 123reg.co.uk
I can't get to the support pages for that host without
logging in, but
you'll likely find your answers there.
If they're set up like 123reg.com, then the odd thing to me
is that
they allow cgi within your public_html folder.
Their path to Perl is shown as /usr/bin/perl, so if
123reg.co.uk uses
the same setup, you would set the first line shebang in your
.pl file
to look like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
And, of course, set the cgi perl file permissions to 755.
BUT...the answers will depend on how 123.co.uk has things set
up. Log
in to their site and check the support pages.
> Should the script be named with a cgi extension as the
server is
> not compatible with perl, and be placed in the cgi-bin
folder?
If the server does not support Perl, no amount of file naming
will make
it work. However, looking at their hosting plans, it seems
they all
support Perl-CGI. The typical extension for Perl scripts is
.pl
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)