problem with email form

[Guest]

Hi. Built a simple form with FP2002. When I hit submit I get the generic
FrontPage Error.
User: please report details to this site's webmaster.
Webmaster: please see the server's application event log for more details.

Trying to save to file and email to myself when I fill out the form. Any
help would be appreciated.
form located at http://romanowski.com/walden/form.htm
thanks

 

[p c]

What is the question?

Have you followed the isntructions? Webmaster=server admin.

...PC

 

[Guest]

I guess I am asking why I get this message. I am hosting the site on my own
W2k3 server with FP Ext installed. I set up the SMTP stuff, plus I am asking
to record to a file. I get no output, just the above mentioned error
message. Where should I start looking?
-P

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Did an error get stored in the server's event log?

One common thing could be the server sending the email to an SMTP server
that requires authentication in order to send. The FP Server Extensions
can't send to an SMTP server that requires authentication so they pretty
much choke at that point. Also, it could be an error trying to save the file
as well so check the permissions on the _private directory to ensure they
allow anonymous users to write to that directory. If you're saving the file
in another location make sure that that directory has the correct
permissions to allow anonymous users to write to it.

Lastly, the problem most likely results from opening the web site as a
disk-based web. In other words, not going through a web server to open or
edit it. You'll need to make sure you open the web through a web server only
to best avoid this problem. Look in the HTML code for the beginning form
element <form. Look specifically for the following text:
onSubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;"When you find
it, try deleting it and see if everything works now. Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick Microsoft MVP - FrontPage"peteromo"