HI,

I am newbie to web-designing and trying to to configure NMS formmail step-by-step as shown on http://www.ironspider.ca/forms/nmsform.htm on a local XAMPP installation.

PATH TO CGI-BIN: E:\E:\xampp\cgi-bin Path to Perl: E:\xampp\perl\bin\perl.exe Path to SendMail : E:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.exe PATH to feedback form: http://127.0.0.1/xampp/form.html

CODE OF FORM.HTML
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<html> <head> <title> Form Function Test</title> </head> <body>

This is a simple form

<form action="E:\xampp\cgi-bin\FormMail.pl" method="POST">

First Name <input type="text" name="fname" />

Last Name <input type="text" name="lname" />

E-Mail       <input type="text" name="email" />

Pls Enter Your Comments:
<textarea name="comm" rows="10" cols="30"></textarea>

<input type="submit" value="Submit Feedback" /> </form> </body> </html>

When i hit submit Firefox gives me an error "Firefox does not know how to open this address because the protocol isn't associated with any program.

When i run the localhost\cgi-bin\FormMail.pl in Google Chrome it provides the following Error:

GET request The HTML form fails to specify the POST method, so it would not be correct for this script to take any action in response to your request.

If you are attempting to configure this form to run with FormMail, you need to set the request method to POST in the opening form tag, like this: <form action="/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl" method="post">

FormMail © 2001-2003 London Perl Mongers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Pls help me resolve this error.

Thanks for your kind suggestion and time.

In reply to Path to Perl on local web host by rseni

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