Re: CGI Problem

If you redesigned your site, you may have moved the script via
FTP...?  If so, you must be sure to transfer it using ASCII mode,
or you will have unexplained problems due to bad formatting of the
code.

The line /usr/lib/sendmail is the path to sendmail, and is not a
part of the local virtual server but rather the configuration of
the machine the hosting is on.  It is unlikely that it changed if
you made no changes to the script, but there is an outside change
that they changed it, coincidentally, while you where changing the
site.  This can usually be checked in the 1st few lines of the
script itself, where there are often configuration settings.  Look
for the sendmail one.  It usually looks something like:

$mailpath="/usr/lib/sendmail";

This is a very common location for sendmail, though, and I would
think it more likely that a bad FTP transfer was the culprit.

On the HTML side, you may have a malformed HTML form, missing some
hidden fields in your HTML form that were there in the last
version or other necessary info.

Hidden Fields: you can check this by looking at the source code
for the old version of your page and seeing if there are any input
fields of type 'hidden' in the area between the opening and
closing form tags.

Visible fields: the example you give below shows ho submit button
or field for the target email addresses.  Because you say you
tested it, I have to assume that you do actually have these fields
in the page in question.  Be aware that you can't send email to a
blank address, so the form should be submitting the email
addresses it is intended to go to...?

The fact that you are getting an error says that you have the
correct URL to the script and that the script is executing.  Don't
go changing things in a whirlwind fashion...work your way through
the list of possible bugs in a methodical manner and you will find
the problem...:)

D

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sunil Bahl" <sunilbahl(at)tigersden.i-p.com>

Dear Friends,

I have this "Tell a Friend" CGI script that I had got from
BigNoseBird.com sometime last year. This script has been working
beautifully since the time I got it.

Now I have just finished re-designing my site and when I went to
test the page i got "MAIL NOT SENT. SMTP ERROR: -3". Now i asked
my hosting company why this was happening they told me that I had
to put /usr/lib/sendmail. What they did not tell me was where? I
do not have any directory on the server with the path as
/usr/lib/sendmail.

Currently I have the following in my HTML code at
http://www.tigers-den.net/tell.htm :

<form method="POST"
action="http://www.tigers-den.net/cgi-bin/birdcast.cgi">
</form>

I have not made any changes to the CGI Script (as I am not a CGI
programmer). Can someone please help me to get this script to work
again.

Await your reply's.

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