Am I missing something JD? Is not the file that runs this also outside of public_html?

Last edited by Damelon (2004-06-29 07:38:47)

I was asked on the Textpattern forum how to setup NMS to allow for multiple recipients. My apologies for posting this here, but I have three reasons (good, I think) for doing it here. First, it keeps it together, secondly it will allow Jason or others to weigh in about if such a modification is still secure which is of direct interest to TXD users, and thirdly as this is the forum for a Hosting service I expect more individuals might have applicable information here.

Modify @allow_mail_to from the values I offered above to :

@allow_mail_to     = ();

Add some recipients to the %recipient_alias section :

%recipient_alias   = (

    'goofy' => 'goofy@dkimbrough.com',
    'micky' => 'micky@dkimbrough.com',
    'donny' => 'donny@dkimbrough.com',    
    );

Then in your web form you need to add recipient to the hidden required field :

<input type="hidden" name="required" value="name,email,recipient" />

And a drop-down option list :

<select name="recipient" size="1">

 


 

Last edited by Damelon (2004-07-23 05:39:52)

dhdesign wrote:

If you would like a good php mail script, take a look at this one - it's already configured to be able to have multiple recipients that users can choose from:

No, I'm not particularly in need of a script beyond what I'm already using but perhaps the person that asked about modifying this one will be able to use this info when they wander over. Thanks for the suggestion.

How might I test this script locally on a mac?

eyevee99 wrote:

I've been trying to get this to work. I always get an Internet Server Error. The permissions are set to 755.

Any ideas?

Try 700 instead of 755.

Ok, the hello world now works. I'm sending "Content-type: text/html\\n\\n" before the print command. No more 500 there.

However, NMS Formmail is still throwing a 500.

I've ensure there are no ^Ms in the file
I've ensure the #! perl path is correct
I've tried permissions of 700 and 755.

Still no dice.

:(

Interestingly, trying on another server gave the following error:

CGI Error

The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:


    
Too late for "-T" option at path/to/script/mymail.pl line 1.

I fixed this. It's a windows issue. However, textdrive version still 500s. :)

Last edited by eyevee99 (2005-12-08 13:50:51)

The only difference that I can see between yours and my working version is that in the form I don't have the full address to the script, just: action="/cgi-bin/script.pl"

I also checked and the permsisions on the script are 755

If that doesn't help you may want to put in a ticket and let them check your cgi directory, sometimes the setups don't get setup correctly.

Thanks for the insight!

Moon, if I enter the path your way I get a 404, very strange..

After doing some googling I loaded up a simple script and requested it via http:myadress.com/cgi-bin/test.pl, but I am getting a 500 again:

#!/tools/ns/bin/perl5

            print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
            print " ";
            print "TESTING PERL";

Does one have to do anything else (like enable any special options in webmin) to make scripts work?
I don't know zilch about servers and coding so forgive me if this sounds naive at best..
I'll submit a ticket this evening if nobody finds a fix to this until then.

Thanks again,
Phil

Ticket submitted :)

I'll post the outcome once things are sorted out..

Cheers,
Phil

Sorry for the "delay" (FOUR months?!) maybe this will help some people:

Florian answered my ticket the same day and the problem was
- DOS line endings
- Syntax error on line 46 (missing semicolon)
He fixed that and since then the script has been working perfectly.

I'm calling the script with:

<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/XXXXXX.pl">


   <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="phs contact form inquiry" />
   <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://philsamhaber.com/confirm.html" />

   <label for="realname">Your name:</label>
   <input id="realname" type="text" name="realname" /><br />

   <label for="email">Email:</label>
   <input id="email" type="text" name="email" /><br />
   
   <label for="message">Your Message</label>
   <textarea id="message" name="feedback" rows="10" cols="5"></textarea><br />
   
   <input id="submitbutton" type="submit" value="Send"/>

</form>

And the pearl itself is:

BEGIN

{
  $DEBUGGING         = 1;
  $emulate_matts_code= 0;
  $secure            = 1;
  $allow_empty_ref   = 1;
  $max_recipients    = 1;
  $mailprog          = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t';
  $postmaster        = 'xxxx@philsamhaber.com';
  @referers          = qw(philsamhaber.com 207.7.108.125 localhost);
  @allow_mail_to     = qw(xxxx@philsamhaber.com 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             = '/phs.css';
  $no_content        = 0;
  $double_spacing    = 1;
  $wrap_text         = 1;
  $wrap_style        = 1;
  $address_style     = 0;
  $send_confirmation_mail = 0;
  $confirmation_text = <<'END_OF_CONFIRMATION';

From: you@your.com

Subject: form submission

    
Thank you for your form submission.

    
END_OF_CONFIRMATION

The script is set to chmod 700, the confirm and contact html are both 644.
Keep in mind the DOS endings!

Cheers

Thanks Damelon!

I too was having problems with my old Formmail script now that I moved over to the Accelerators. Using the new script downloaded from the NMS formmail site, changing the parms and security as you mentioned above - all is well.

Tanks for taking the time to document this.

Bill.