Hello,

Does anybody have a recommendation for a good script to handle form submissions to e-mail?

I have a simple form that when someone fills it out and clicks the Submit button, it emails the form values to my e-mail account.

Most of what I found requires sendmail. It appears that qmail is installed on my VPS. Can anybody tell me how to set something up?

Thanks,
George

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Okay, I installed FormMail. I followed the instructions I found here http://www.lunarforums.com/lunarpages_how_tos/setting_up_nms_formmail-t18221.0.html

step-by-step.

When I submit my form, the perl script is downloaded and displayed in my browser.  I see a pattern here. Server side scripting isn't working in this domain for some reason. This is the same thing that happens when I try to access a php script. Only difference there is I am prompted to down load the file. Here it just downloads it and presents it to me.

Odd thing is, it does this only if the file extension is .cgi. If I change it to .pl I get a "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /sandbox/cgi-bin/test.pl on this server" error message.

Is it because the directory /sandbox is password protected?

Thanks,
George

Hi Vlad,

You are on to something. I have spent the last 8 hours playing with it and here is what I know (which ain't much)..

To answer your questions, the sandbox directory is in the httpdocs directory. It is not in a sub-domain. Presently, the sandbox directory does NOT have a cgi-bin directory. It did originally but I have removed it.

The httpdocs directory does contain a cgi-bin directory but it isn't being used as far as I can tell. I ultimately overcame my issue by putting the FormMail script in the cgi-bin directory just above the httpdocs directory:

advancedcomfortsystem/cgi-bin

My html form is in httpdocs/sandbox. This is a password protected folder so that only my client can access his new web site which is underconstruction there.

The html form action is "../cgi-bin/FormMail.cgi" (Not the real name of the cgi)

My problem was I put the FormMail.cgi script in the sandbox/cgi-bin directory and I tried everything to get it to work but couldn't. After many iterations I stumbled across the cgi-bin directory just above the httpdocs directory. I put the script in there and then tried setting the form action to "../../cgi-bin/FormMail.cgi", which made sense to me but it didn't work. I then tried "../../../cgi-bin/FormMail.cgi" and it didn't work. My final attempt of "../cgi-bin/FormMail.cgi" worked and I am happy. I don't understand why this works. Isn't that cgi-bin directory two directories up from form page in httpdocs/sandbox?

Now, what did I do wrong? Shouldn't I be able to reference the cgi-bin in the sandbox directory?

So when you say I might have my sandbox/cgi-bin directory