thank you so much for taking the effort and clearing out the mistakes. I have found out my error by searching through the forum and others. there is some issue with the form action tag in my html. It does not send the data to the .cgi script. Is there any modifications that i need to do to make it work? I did go through answers that said look into the httpd.conf file, and move the cgi file to cgi-bin folder. I tried them but to no avail. Also I do not have root access. So can you help me out along those lines?