Hi all,
I've been frustrated with my initial efforts to run perl scripts on my
server, or rather the server I use. I have tried a few simple form mailers, each of
them
failing with internal 500 error. I had a simple test.cgi perl script that I got from a
recent tutorial I viewed from the listings at Lynda.com At the site, Lynda.com there
is
a perl/cgi tutorial movie from the cdrom by that same name. Anyway, there was a simple
test.cgi script that prints out the environment variables and information about what
version of
perl is running and what version of the cgi. One can see that info. if it is needed by
running http://trianglesupport.net/cgi-bin/test.cgi
Ok, on another domain, I have my form mailer that I want to have mail me back
the poetry, prose, etc submissions. I am using bnbform.cgi that I found online. I
was wondering if
someone could look at it to see if there are any things that could go wrong. I had
the same script
running on a different server but I can't remember doing anything different and that
was a while ago.
I took out the lines where it would create a file to hold the same data that would be
emailed.
Now, it only has to email the results of the form. The form is called from this page:
http://wordsalad.net/submission.html which can also be reached by starting at
http://wordsalad.net
Looking at the code - html code - one can see that the form calls
http://wordsalad.net/cgi-bin/bnbform.cgi
I checked and this file has the 755 execute permission for everyone. I could have
been given a
wrong path to the sendmail program from the web hosting provider but it seems like a
different
error would show up. The web hosting provider is usually good at getting back to me
and I haven't
heard that there is any error in the path to the sendmail program.
Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Next I want to install a perl
based blog
and a bulletin board, but on different sites.
Bruce
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