Simple Question: Building a basic results page

Question

I’ve followed the Dreamweaver CS3 help file:
”Building a basic results page” in building a simple
search and results page set for a very simple MySQL query. After
restarting multiple times, I’m not getting a results page,
but rather “HTTP 500” …no page to display of
course. After extensive web searches for possible help file errors,
suggestions, my errors, etc., I’m lost. I have programming
experience but not with Dreamweaver.
Thanks…The Nuch

Answer 1

> but rather
> ?HTTP 500?
What is the exact url address in the browser when you get the
http 500
error.
in your form, this is the action:
<form action="/member_result_test2.php"
That is a site root relative path, it starts with a leading
/slash.
are you testing this at a local host address like this,
http://localhost/mysite/myform.html
if yes, do NOT use site root relative paths. they won't work
for local
testing.
When you submit the form, it's going here to find the
processing script:
http://localhost/member_result_test2.php
instead of
http://localhost/mysite/member_result_test2.php
change the action path to a document relative path.
(you can use site root relative paths locally if you set up a
virtual host
name so you can use something like
http://mysite.local as a local
testing
url)
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/