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CGI Forms

 

To add a guestbook, chat, formmail or forum:

Follow steps 1-3 "Adding generic CGI scripts"

Click on the red "Off" button to turn this feature on.

 

Your script has been added to your site CGI folder. You can flip to your Web Shell Program (accessible via Control Panel and clicking on the File Manager icon under the Tools menu) to check and see if it was installed. You should see a CGI-BIN folder, inside this folder you should see a FORMMAIL folder and then a file in the FORMMAIL folder called formmail.cgi.

The system automatically uses your url and inserts it into the formmail.cgi file so the file knows how to execute through your site. (You may also be required to add a file types to let the cgi folder know what types of files it can expect to process.)

You will need to edit this file which you can do using Web Shell. You open the file to VIEW and then select the EDIT function while in the view mode. You will be editing an executable file. Please be careful and read the documentation for Formmail on www.scriptarchive.com.

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Please Pay Special Attention to this NOTE:
SIMPLE SETUP:

For the most simple setup, place any domain name that you wish to send form results to in the @referers array. Warning: This allows those domains to also access your FormMail script and utilize it to process their own forms, but likely this is what you intended anyway. If so, you can leave:

@recipients = &fill_recipients(@referers); The "@referers" will be the hosted domain name that this script was activated for. i.e. @yourdomainname.com

Also, Matt Wright (scrip owner) has put in special security based upgrades in the code of the form to prevent spamming and unauthorized use of forms. You must ensure the domain name associated with the recipient e-mail address and the referers domain name are identical in the form. Then the recipient e-mail address in the form must match the domain of the cgi file.

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