FormMail for MACs

How do I set file permissions on WebStar 4D?

[DiAMOndDavE]

Hello folks,
This is driving me nuts. I have a website with a standard form. I have the perl script FormMail (from NMS sourceforge) configured and installed in the cgi-bin folder as FormMail.pl. It's not working. I think the problem is I have to execute the file permission for the perl script? On a unix machine this is chmod 755 right? But this website is running on a MAC G3 (OS 9) using the WebStar 4D server suite. How do I chmod 755 on this? Do I need to? Is there a WebStar command to execute file permissions do get a perl script like FormMail up & running?

Thanks & regards
DiAMOndDavE

[Yidaki]

Upload the file to webstar, chmod to 0755 using your ftp programm (best is fetch). Use UNIX line breaks and upload as ASCII! Also, check the server settings (using Web* Admin) and set up a appropriate action / realm for pl / cgi and formmail.

However, i highly recommend updating to OSX and Web* 5.3! (!)

I just upgraded three months ago and i'm still amazed - it's damn fast, rock solid and much more flexible than Web* 4. You can use flexmail to set up form processing / mailing very very easy! Also the CGI, Perl and PHP support is much better.