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dudley
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Forms programming error - 6/18/2007 15:35:28
I keep getting a 405 programming error for a simple form I've put together.
Can anyone tell me what is wrong with it?
http://www.rmgo.org/materials.shtml
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Tailslide responded:
There's nothing in the form action at the moment:
<form action="" method="post">
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What should be there? It's a simple form, but I'm a pretty simple guy. :)
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rdouglass
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RE: Forms programming error - 6/19/2007 9:43:47
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<form action="" method="post">
You need to set the action to the page that processes the form data. Usually something like:
<form action="myFormHandler.asp" method="post">
That help any?
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Tailslide
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RE: Forms programming error - 6/19/2007 10:59:11
Sorry I didn't respond to your other post Dudley - I'm not familiar with Expressions and frankly don't know if it will create a form handler script for you or whether you have to come up with one manually like the rest of us!!
If you find that you need to bring-your-own form handler script then I can certainly recommend FormMail.nms which is a more secure version of the old favourite FormMail and which works, far as I know on both Linux and Windows servers.
You do need to configure it a bit but nothing too terrible (you need the path to perl which you can get from your host and your IP address along with your email address). You'd add:
form action="http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl" method="post"> to your HTML form along with a few hidden fields which you'll find details of in the FormMail config notes. Then you upload the script to your cgi-bin (Linux servers, not sure about on Windows), ensure the permissions are set correctly and bob's your uncle (in theory!).
Edit: aha! knew I had something useful somwhere! Here's a link to a tutorial about setting up FormMail.nms should you need to go down that route: http://www.ironspider.ca/forms/nmsform.htm#shebang
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