Re: Help me with my form please.

From: dan baker (botfood_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/08/04 

Date: 8 Apr 2004 14:58:05 -0700

davidbaker@canoemail.com (David Baker) wrote in message news:<279d0b35.0404061056.13a64c2a@posting.google.com>...
> I am a total newbie, and have no idea what I am doing. I have created
> a html form, and am tring to pass some variable to a perl script to
> make it update a guest book. When ever I press submit on my form, I
> get a "HTTP 500 - Internal server error".
----------
besides the code errors, http 500 errors often indicate that the
script has the wrong privs. you need to chmod the script to rwxr-xr-x
so the server can execute it. it also needs to be in a dir that the
server allows to BE executed, usually cgi-bin.

d

Relevant Pages

  • Re: IP addresses and JS.
    ... >>A computer language is just that, ... Javascript is just a programming language, and may be used to script all ... The interaction between a web browser and a server is through HTTP. ... execute scripts and/or programs, ...
    (comp.lang.javascript)
  • Re: Help with a socket script execution
    ... necessary execute the socket server script from the console (#!/usr/ ... along with some PHP magic so the script doesn't die when the HTTP ... you give me a few details about how to use exec command? ... only execute something and finish it execution or wait until the ...
    (comp.lang.php)
  • Re: is it possible to call vbs file with js?
    ... Server side code will *never* execute in the browser. ... shared between server and client (e.g. parsers, validators, HTML forms ... But they won't share the same script block. ...
    (comp.lang.javascript)
  • Re: is it possible to call vbs file with js?
    ... side script to execute in firefox" and the answer is quite simple. ... Server side code will *never* execute in the browser. ... client side script "prints" the HTML into the document object. ...
    (comp.lang.javascript)
  • Re: Reading SCRIPT_FILENAME thru cron
    ... $sp1 is set correctly when I execute file.php thru the browser. ... when I run that script thru cron $sp1 is always null. ... $_SERVER is filled in by the web server - and it won't exist if you don't access the page though the server. ...
    (comp.lang.php)