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March 14, 2008 at 06:46 PM
lockoutgirl

Forms, CGI, and a “Method not allowed” error

by lockoutgirl . Updated 18 years, 4 months ago

The short story background is this – In my spare time, I’m working on
a website for a group. Recently, I loaded the redesigned site and
began to test. Somehow in the move, their Application form for trips
ended up with the necessary cgi files that send the form data to an
email deleted. (The data needs to be cleaned up and emailed to a
particular email address, while the user is given a “thank you” page)
So, expanding on my non-existent knowledge, I began to research
and now have what I feel should be a good simple form that SHOULD
do what I need. However, when I try to test the form, it gives me an
error message of:

Method Not Allowed

The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /feedback.cgi.
Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.wbmonline.org Port 80

The testing page I am using with the form on it is:
www.wbmonline.org/testing.html

The CGI script file is wbmonline.org/feedback.cgi

I’m at a loss as to what it might be, since I am not familiar with this
stuff in the least. I can call our web host and discuss with them if it
may be a server setting issue. I just wanted to see if it’s a problem in
my code before I do. It took me long enough to find a code I felt
would do what I wanted, since I am not able to wrap my mind around
the coding language.

Thanks!

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