FW: [vps-mail] Possible FormMail Issue

["Colin Adams" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All, 

 

Any suggestions at all?

 

From: Colin Adams [mailto:webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 02 September 2011 06:37
To: 'vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [vps-mail] Possible FormMail Issue

 

Sadly, this isn't the issue this time around, this is an extract from the
FormMail.pl file:

 

$DEBUGGING         = 1;

  $emulate_matts_code= 0;

  $secure            = 1;

  $allow_empty_ref   = 1;

  $max_recipients    = 5;

  $mailprog          = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t';

  $postmaster        = '';

  @referers          = qw(antigua-marina.com 161.58.1.84 localhost);

  @allow_mail_to     = qw(webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx localhost);

  @recipients        = ();

  %recipient_alias   = ();

  @valid_ENV         = qw(REMOTE_HOST REMOTE_ADDR REMOTE_USER
HTTP_USER_AGENT);

  $locale            = '';

  $charset           = 'iso-8859-1';

  $date_fmt          = '%A, %B %d, %Y at %H:%M:%S';

  $style             = '/css/nms.css';

  $no_content        = 0;

  $double_spacing    = 1;

  $wrap_text         = 0;

  $wrap_style        = 1;

  $address_style     = 0;

  $send_confirmation_mail = 0;

  $confirmation_text = <<'END_OF_CONFIRMATION';

 

Does anything there look incorrect?

 

From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Abigail Marshall
Sent: 02 September 2011 03:23
To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [vps-mail] Possible FormMail Issue

 

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.

 

The form reference is as follows:

 

<form method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl" onsubmit="return
FrontPage_Form1_Validator(this)" language="JavaScript"
name="FrontPage_Form1">

 

The Script Alias is: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /usr/local/etc/httpd/fhm-cgi-bin/

 

The FormMail.pl script is in the fhm-cgi-bin directory.

 

Any ideas?

 

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

 

>From what I recall, permissions are not usually a big problem on a VPS1,
but path designation in the form can be an issue.  

 

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

 

cd /www/logs

tail error_log

 

-Abigail

 

-

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Colin Adams <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'm on a V1 Unix platform

 

 

From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Abigail Marshall
Sent: 01 September 2011 15:14


To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [vps-mail] Possible FormMail Issue

 

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

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

Hi,

 

First of all, thanks for looking at this so quickly.

 

I'm definitely not "technically inclined" so can I ask the following:

 

How do I change the permissions?

Where do I find the error log?

 

 

Thanks again.

 

 

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

 

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.  

 

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)

 

-Abigail

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Colin Adams <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi ,

 

I've just created a new form using the FormMail.pl script to process the
results.

 

The form can be found here:
http://www.antigua-marina.com/booking_proof310811.html

 

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.

 

I thought that I had got everything right but am encountering the following
error message when I submit the form: 

 

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/FormMail.pl on this server.

 

I double checked the @referers variable but couldn't see anything wrong with
it.

 

Can anyone help?

 

 

 

Thanks!