Is anyone on the list using "formmail" CGI script on their RH Apache implementations?

[Sebastijan Petrovic]

Just FYI,

I fixed the issue by using FormMail from
http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml.

Works like a charm.

Thanks Craig et All.

Sebastijan 

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Craig Daters
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:08 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Is anyone on the list using "formmail" CGI script on their
RH Apache implementations?

Sebastijan Petrovic wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been using FormMail (well known, I'm sure) CGI script on my
Apache
> servers for 5-6 years and never had a problem.
> 
> I recently upgraded from RH9 to FC2 and FormMail no longer works.
> Rather, I keep getting 500 errors on the server.
> 
> I tested the script from command line and it's fine, the path to the
> script is good as well as the permissions.
> 
> When I review error_log for Apache it shows Premature end of script
> headers: FormMail.pl
> 

I ran into a scenerio where I was trying to run virtual websites and 
when I attempted to run CGI from within the users CGI-bin, I would get 
these errors. However, the main site would work just fine (same script) 
I never did solve the problem, I just went to using PHP instead. I 
believe that this error has to do with running CGI scripts outside of 
your docroot. Such as a users directory or something. Apache needs 
Suexec compiled into it or somesuch to support this. So I don't know if 
it was permissions, or what...I just didn't have the time to figure it 
out....

Anyway, if you are using Matt's Formmail script, you should check out:
http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml for their 'nms FormMail'

Their scripts are much more secure, and actually, they have an improved 
FormMail script there called TFMail.

We use the nms FormMail right now, but I am looking to switch to the 
TFMail when I get a chance.

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