Re: CGI for collecting phone numbers

ferreira@xxxxxxx wrote:

Please don't think that I am asking some one to do this for me! I have
spent hours trying to figure out why this simple script won't work.

This is what I have:

The html file:

<FORM ACTION="/sms.pl" METHOD="POST">Cell Number: <INPUT TYPE="text"
NAME="phone"><input type="submit" name="submitButtonName" border="0">
</FORM>


The sms.pl file:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
my $file = '/users/web/king/web/sms.txt';
open (FILE, ">>" . $file) or die "cannot open file for appending: $!";
flock (FILE, 2) or die "cannot lock file exclusively: $!";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print FILE $phone . "\n";
close (FILE) or die "cannot close file: $!";



And a sms.txt file
All of the files are in the same place on the server

The is the error log message:
access:
c-68-35-76-89.hsd1.nm.comcast.net - - [09/Jun/2006:17:28:30 +0000]
"POST /sms.pl HTTP/1.1" 500 -


It is unlikely your webserver is configured to execute files in your
document root. You may have to move it into /cgi-bin or similar, and make
sure it is executable by the webserver (permissions).


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Brian Wakem
Email: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/b.wakem/myemail.png
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