What must I have to get a cgi form to work?

[Knight_903]

Guys I have a site were Im trying to get a membership form to work. I no nothing about all of this. I have a perl ans mysql thing on my web server (no nothing about that either lol) I would love to learn if some one could take the time to teach me. thx

[wruk999]

LOL :)

No probs. Let us know how that last one I sent you works.

wruk999

[Knight_903]

Ok lol now Im getting a new error but I feel that we are getting closer :)

Apache/1.3.27 server at www.yourdomain.com port80

[wruk999]

Hi Knight,

I am just heading off for the day, but when I return, I shall come back and help.
That line is standard on access problem pages, could you possible post what other error lines/statements are on your page.

wruk999

[wruk999]

Hi Knight,

What program are you using to FTP?
If Cute_FTP or WS_FTP, you will need to make sure that you upload in ASCII mode (radio buttons towards bottom of screen), and then you will need to chmod it (in *_ftp; this is right-clicking on the remote file name, click chmod). You need it to be:

755
Owner: Read, Write & Execute
Group: Read & Execute ONLY
Other: Read & Execute ONLY

If group and other have write access then your script will be TOTALLY insecure, and this is probably against your hosts terms of service.

Knight, if you want to sticky me the URL of the page where the *form* resides (html page) then I shall take a look and see the error for myself - remember, don't post URL's here. (As per the Terms of Service [webmasterworld.com].)

Lets hope we get there in the end! :)

wruk999

[Knight_903]

I sent you a stickey

[Knight_903]

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [e-mail] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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Apache/1.3.27 Server at <snip> Port 80

[edited by: jatar_k at 1:51 am (utc) on April 15, 2003]
[edit reason] no url's thanks [/edit]

[Knight_903]

Do you know anything about postnukem