CGI problems

woundedhealer

I've made a form using cgi and a txt file so it can be sent to me by email. When I tried the form out I got "url not found on this server" for the txt file. I can't see anything that I've done wrong. I've done a test form to try and sort this out.

The form is in the cgi-bin and I've put a cgiemail folder in the cgi-bin for the txt file. Is this the right thing to do?
This is the code for sending the form

<form name="test" method="post" action="http://www.earthspirit.frih.net/cgi-bin/cgiecho/test.txt">

This is the txt file

From: [email]
To:goldenwolf@uk-email.co.uk
Subject: Test

What is your name? [yourname]

I know cgi is not used so much these days, but I haven't got the time to learn php or perl right now.

deepak

If its 404 then either path is wrong or administrator blocked TXT files in this folder.

Please try to put this filde in same folder and check its permissions.

woundedhealer

The permissions were wrong and I've now put them to 755. I tried putting the txt file in the cgi-bin folder but got a 404 file not foundmessage. I then put this file back into the cgiemail folder and got the 500 message:-

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@earthspirit.frih.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

I don't understand what this means.

I need all the help I can get at the moment. I've got a spinal injury and I'm in the middle of a huge flare-up right now and I'm not able to sit at my computer long enough to try and work this out.

Antoine_935

an Internal Server Error means you maybe have forgotten headers Wink

Did you put them ?

"Content-Type: text/html\r\n
\r\n"

I think no more is needed, but maybe I'm wrong.

Did you also compile executable file for server's OS ?

deepak

As Antonie suggested either check your header .. or your code .. try to run this code in local interpretator if you find any syntax error .. rectify it and upload again.

Ref: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/servererror.shtml

Manofgames

i'm experiencing similar problems with a perl script i got called perl digger : http://www.manofgames.frih.net/cgi-bin/dig.pl

pls help. came to fri cos i thought thi problem would be resolved

Manofgames

oh yeah

if u can help, ftp user frihelp@manofgames.frih.net
pass fri

u hav accesss to cgi-bin only, please help

Manofgames

i fixed it, usr deleted.

set cgi-bin folder and all contents to 755 Smile

Manofgames

thankyou fri hosting for excellent service by da way Smile

woundedhealer

Manofgames

check ur permisions!!

I had an internal server error, changed perms and it worked. try it

woundedhealer

Permissions are set at 755 for both files, so it's not that.

Manofgames

check da cgi-bin folder perms too just in case Smile

deepak