absolute newbie cgi-bin question (sorry!)

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

Hi! Yes, sorry, I'm sure I've seen this documented somewhere but for the life of me can't find it now

I'm trying to create an email form, following the guide for cgiemail, but don't know where the ACTION link should point - in the example it points to ACTION="http://web.mit.edu/bin/cgiecho/wwwdev/cgiemail/questions3.txt" but I don't know how this relates to my setup. I have my email template file in the same place as my html page which has the form on it, (http://test.jonathanmortimer.co.uk/port/email_template) should it point to this? Do I have to point to the cgi script somewhere?

Please excuse me for appearing a bit dim here, I've never touched a cgi-bin before! I'm also wondering if it might be a good idea to have one of those 'type what you see here' things, and how complicated that would be to set up.

Thanks!

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5684

Hi,

Well your cgi-bin located here:

http://jonathanmortimer.co.uk/cgi-bin/

*however* a cgi-bin is created for each subdomain so:

http://test.jonathanmortimer.co.uk/cgi-bin/

is where cgi-bin scripts should be placed.

Andrew

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

So should I place my email_template text file in the cgi-bin folder and set the ACTION link to that?

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5684

Place your txt files say in the "test" folder you have, then put the action link like this:

http://test.jonathanmortimer.co.uk/cgi-bin/cgiemail/test.txt

Andrew

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

Been a long time, I know, but I've moved my portfolio and now the CGI appears to be messed up.

My portfolio website and contact form now reside in http://www.jonathanmortimer.co.uk/portfolio/

Where do I have to place my email_template file? How do I link to the cgi from my form so that it will pick up this file?

Thanks!

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5684

Hi,

Place the txt file inside your portfolio/cgi-bin/ folder. Then update your action link to reflect that new location.

Thanks,

Andrew

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

I'm actually still in the /test2 folder, but it will be moved to /portfolio as soon as everything is finished.

I copied the cgi-bin folder from / to /test2 and updated my form action to point to http://www.jonathanmortimer.co.uk/test2/cgi-bin/cgiemail/email_template.txt

but I get a 404 not found when I try to use the form to send an email.

My email_template.txt file is in the /test2/cgi-bin folder.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject:

Hi,

That URL has cgiemail as a folder but in http://www.jonathanmortimer.co.uk/test2/cgi-bin/

This is no cgiemail folder

Hope that helps

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5684

It looks like you haven't created the subdomain test2, but simply created a directory test2. In that case you should use the cgi-bin folder located in your public_html foldler. You only use cgi-bin alternate cgi-bin folders when they have been created when you created a subdomain.

Thanks,

Andrew

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

Ah, so I have to place my email_template.txt file in the /cgi-bin folder?

Oh no, it's OK, I have it working now. Placed email_template.txt in /
Seems very confusing!!

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 5684

Well the cgi-bin folder is a special folder, you can't just create a cgi-bin folder it has to be created by cPanel when it creates your account or a subdomain on it.

Glad you have it working now!

Thanks,

Andrew

NetHosted Customer Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 78

Thanks for your help, I'd be lost without it

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