Html forms not working-cgi prob?

[ReeRee]

HI all! I am having issues with my webpage and am too frustrated to think of an answer :rant2:. I read all the posts on similar probs I could find, most were resolved and said start new thread, so I am doing just that.

First, a brief synopsis of what I am going for with the page: I have some html forms and a perl cgi script. The script should take the input of the forms, and 'print' it to a txt file. That file then is displayed at the bottom of said page using CSS.

I have the forms in place, a script that SHOULD work, and the txt file displayed. The problem is: the cgi is doing nothing. I can't seem to figure this out :dunno:. I checked and rechecked the code (an area I am not too comfortable with in the first place) and it seems fine. I tried looking into the Perl mods on CPX, but that only confused me more. I even tried to go a different route with php/mysql, and after 5 hours of pulling hair I said :thefinger that.

Am I missing other components? Does my script need work? Is it my html? I have no clue. PLM is the page.

My Perl script is the cgi-bin subfolder of public_html and reads:

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
use strict;
use warning;
use diagnostics;
 
use CGI;
my $cgi = CGI->new;
my $name = $cgi->param('name');
my $class = $cgi->param('class');
my $level = $cgi->param('level');
 
open(outputfile,"/kos.txt"); 
print (outputfile "$name \n<br>  $class \n<br> $level \n<br>");
close(outputfile);
 
print "Location: plmkos.html\n\n";
exit;

What other info (if any) do I need to post? Am I even in the right forum?
Any and all help is most welkum.
Thanks!

[LHVWB]

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Good luck!

[Jose Magsino]

Change this :

open(outputfile,"kos.txt");

to

open(outputfile,">kos.txt");

That should solve your problem..



Also I've noticed that you are using / there which points to root directory..
I hope you have permission to that directory.

HTH

[ReeRee]

Unfortunately that change had no effect. The page does nothing still. As for permissions, how do I check that?

Thanks for your help.

Edit: Thanks for the move Verb :D

[bugfinder]

If you go into the file manager and select the file theres a permissions icon at the top.

[Jose Magsino]

What i'm referring to on the permission is that you are using / on your code. This / thing points you to the root directory.

open(outputfile,"/kos.txt");

Are you sure that your account has permission access that / directory? If you dont have access then please use other directory (you may use /home/youraccountname/) in which you are allowed to or simply remove that '/' character.

And also as bugfinder said, maybe the script you made doesnt have permission to execute, please follow what he said, change its permission to 755.

HTH.

[ReeRee]

Ok, now I know to what you were referring, all is as it should be. The root dir is the public_html folder, so yeah permission granted. As for the other permissions, all were/are set to 755.

Is there something else I need to include in the script folder other than the script itself?

Thanks again for your support.

[marshian]

I know nothing of perl at all, but are you sure the root dir is public_html?
as far as i know, public_html is /home/yourname/public_html

[ReeRee]

Tried changing all the directories, to no avail. really frustrated atm. Maybe I should give php/mysql another shot? any other suggestions?

[woiwky]

First, your html is a little messed up. You have the submit image after the closing <form> tag, so that won't submit. Also, you specify the form's action as:

http://plm.pcriot.com/home/reeree/pu.../submit_kos.pl

You need to change that to '/cgi-bin/submit_kos.pl'. Lastly, you use the names 'Class' and 'Level' in the html, but you use 'class' and 'level' in the script.

And as for the script, you're missing the 's' in "use warnings;" for one. Second, you need to change

open(outputfile,"/kos.txt");

to

open(outputfile,">../kos.txt");

to specify that you want to rewrite the file and to navigate out of the cgi-bin directory. And you should also change the redirection to:

print "Location: http://plm.pcriot.com/plmkos.html\n\n";

Those changes *should* fix it.