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Article #4how does the formmail work
From: Lacey
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 07:09
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 07:09
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hello helpers.
I rent my apache server from a fairly unhelpful company when it comes to cgi
support, so I thought I d ask here.
I made a simple booking for a business customers to fill in. I made this in
dreamweaver 3 ok no worries.
I uploaded it to the cgi-bin on the server
I downloaded from Matts' script archive the formmail.pl
Is this ok to use with a html inquiry form ? How do the 2 files "talk to
each" other ?
in the first line of the formmail.pl it says
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#!/usr/bin/perl
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ok, but do I fill in the usr as my domain and the bin as cgi-bin ?. Im not
sure where the perl application is located, but Ill push on here..
I guessed the next few lines and filled them in:
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$mailprog = 'FormMail.pl';
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@referers = ('my_domain_name_goes_here.com');
@recipients = my_admin_account_goes_here@referers;
@valid_ENV = ('REMOTE_HOST','REMOTE_ADDR','REMOTE_USER','HTTP_USER_AGENT');
# Done
#
when I run it on the website, it says not configured...
I chgmod 755 of the formmail.pl file as well..
..any helpers on this one...
thanks
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