Re: [vps-mail] Possible FormMail Issue

[Abigail Marshall <abigailrm@xxxxxxxxx>]

The last time around I think part of your problem was that you had the path
to sendmail wrong.  It was
 '/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t'  and you changed it to  '/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi
-t',

I don't know that it would produce a "forbidden" type error message, but it
would on place to start.

-Abigail

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Colin Adams <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Come to think of it, I had another form issue on a website on this same
> server using the same Perl script that you helped me out with before and
> there wasn’t a problem with permissions then.****
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> The form reference is as follows:****
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> <form method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl" onsubmit="return
> FrontPage_Form1_Validator(this)" language="JavaScript"
> name="FrontPage_Form1">****
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> The Script Alias is: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /usr/local/etc/httpd/fhm-cgi-bin/
> ****
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> The FormMail.pl script is in the fhm-cgi-bin directory.****
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> Any ideas?****
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> *From:* owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> *On Behalf Of *Abigail Marshall
> *Sent:* 01 September 2011 16:25
>
> *To:* vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Re: [vps-mail] Possible FormMail Issue****
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> >From what I recall, permissions are not usually a big problem on a VPS1,
> but path designation in the form can be an issue.  ****
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> On a VPS2 or 3, the error logs are usually in a file in the /www/logs
> directory -- you can just submit the form, then log in via shell and run
> tail on the error log to see the last few lines.  Example****
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> cd /www/logs****
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> tail error_log****
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> -Abigail****
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> -****
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> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Colin Adams <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:****
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> I’m on a V1 Unix platform****
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> *From:* owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> *On Behalf Of *Abigail Marshall
> *Sent:* 01 September 2011 15:14****
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> *To:* vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Re: [vps-mail] Possible FormMail Issue****
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> What platform are you on?  (VPS 3?  Unix? )****
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> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Colin Adams <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:****
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> Hi,****
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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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>  ****
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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>
> wrote:****
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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
> with it.****
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> Can anyone help?****
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> Thanks!****
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