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Start your free trialMalcolm Stretten
3,814 PointsActually SENDING an HTML form
This tutorial doesn't tell you how to actually SEND the form.
I wonder if anyone out there can tell me what is wrong with this form. It's a template I downloaded but the bit that's not working is inside the <form action> tags.
I am using FormMail.pl and I am certain I have correctly edited it to send emails to the domain www.landlord-building-contents-insurance.co.uk
Because the form is currently called 'index.html" it's inside a folder. The form comes up perfectly when you type in landlord-building-contents-insurance.co.uk/Responsive_Form/index.html
But when you click the Submit button it keeps saying there is An Internal Server Error.
I have modified the cgi-bin permissions to 0755.
Here is the snippet of the action code in the HTML form: <form name="hongkiat" id="hongkiat-form" action="http://www.landlord-building-contents-insurance.co.uk/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl" method="post">
And here is the MODIFIED ONLY section of my FormMail.pl
Define Variables
Detailed Information Found In README File.
$mailprog defines the location of your sendmail program on your unix
system. The flags -i and -t should be passed to sendmail in order to
have it ignore single dots on a line and to read message for recipients
$mailprog = '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -t';
@referers allows forms to be located only on servers which are defined
in this field. This is a security fix to prevent others from using your
FormMail script on their web site.
@referers = (‘http://landlord-building-contents-insurance.co.uk’,’http://www.landlord-building-contents-insurance.co.uk');
@recipients defines the e-mail addresses or domain names that e-mail can
be sent to. This must be filled in correctly to prevent SPAM and allow
valid addresses to receive e-mail. Read the documentation to find out how
this variable works!!! It is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
@recipients = ('^info\@landlord-building-contents-insurance.co.uk’);
ACCESS CONTROL FIX: Peter D. Thompson Yezek
@valid_ENV allows the sysadmin to define what environment variables can
be reported via the env_report directive. This was implemented to fix
the problem reported at http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1187
@valid_ENV = ('REMOTE_HOST','REMOTE_ADDR','REMOTE_USER','HTTP_USER_AGENT');
Done
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,269 PointsIn addition to the folder permissions, there could be some server configuration necessary to execute your script. The script may also be executing, but encountering an internal error. These things will need to be diagnosed at the server.
To assist with the first issue, there are test scripts available that simply display the posted data back to the browser. Installing one of those would allow you to confirm that the server is actually executing the script correctly.
Malcolm Stretten
3,814 PointsThanks for this answer. So, does it look like I have actually got the coding on the web form and inside the FormMail.pl correct?