Re: [vps-mail] Possible FormMail Issue

[Abigail Marshall <abigailrm@xxxxxxxxx>]

What platform are you on?  (VPS 3?  Unix? )

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Colin Adams <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> First of all, thanks for looking at this so quickly.****
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> I’m definitely not “technically inclined” so can I ask the following:****
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> How do I change the permissions?****
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> Where do I find the error log?****
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> Thanks again…****
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> *From:* owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> *On Behalf Of *Abigail Marshall
> *Sent:* 01 September 2011 01:03
> *To:* vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Re: [vps-mail] Possible FormMail Issue****
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> Start by looking at the error log -- that often will give a clue.   If it
> doesn't make sense to you, post whatever the output is here.  It could be a
> lot of different things, and without access to your server or your script,
> it's hard to guess.  ****
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> You can start by checking permissions on the script, however -- that's
> basically the most common reason a newly created script won't work.  Set
> them temporarily to 777 for testing, and then if it solves the problem, you
> can experiment by tightening them up.  (You don't want to leave it at 777
> because that's a security risk, but if you test at that level and things
> still don't work, you'll at least know that it is not a permissions problem)
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> -Abigail****
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> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Colin Adams <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Hi ,****
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> I’ve just created a new form using the FormMail.pl script to process the
> results.****
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> The form can be found here:
> http://www.antigua-marina.com/booking_proof310811.html****
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> I added a script alias for the cgi-bin directory to the virtual host config
> (ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /usr/local/etc/httpd/neem-cgi-bin/) and changed the
> variables for the FormMail.pl script.****
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> I thought that I had got everything right but am encountering the following
> error message when I submit the form: ****
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> *Forbidden*****
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> You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/FormMail.pl on this server.**
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> I double checked the @referers variable but couldn’t see anything wrong
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> Can anyone help?****
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> Thanks!****
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