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HTML and CGI/Perl Support

This page details specific technical support in relation to our servers and server configuration. For general help on writing in HTML and CGI/Perl click here for links to useful sites

Note that our servers are Microsoft Internet Information servers (IIS), Windows NT.

HTML

Please remember to put your HTML files into the /htdocs/ folder to make them visible. If you do not do this then you will get a "You are not authorized to view this page" message.

Email Forms from within HTML:

To send email from within a form in HTML you should create the special form mail program (sendmail.asp) by copying the following text and creating a plain text file called sendmail.asp in Notepad or WordPad. Put it into the cgi-bin folder.

<%@LANGUAGE = VBSCRIPT%>
<html>
<body>

<%
' Get the form data
name        = Request.Form("name")
senderEmail = Request.Form("email")
subject    = "Regarding " & Request.Form("subject")
recipient   = Request.Form("recipient")
body        = Request.Form("body")
strReferer = request.servervariables("HTTP_REFERER") 
strServer = Replace(request.servervariables("SERVER_NAME"),"www.","")
strSMTPServer = "smtp." & strServer

' check referer
intComp = inStr(strReferer, strServer)
If intComp > 0 Then
       blnSpam = False
Else
    ' Spam Attempt Block
    blnSpam = True
End If

' Create the JMail message Object
set msg = Server.CreateOBject( "JMail.Message" )

' Set logging to true to ease any potential debugging
' And set silent to true in case you wish to handle the errors yourself
msg.Logging = true
msg.silent = true

' Enter the sender data
msg.From = senderEmail

' Note that as addRecipient is a method and not
' a property, you do not use an equals ( = ) sign
msg.AddRecipient recipient

' The subject of the message
msg.Subject = subject

' And the body
msg.body = body

' Now send the message, using the indicated mailserver
If NOT blnSpam Then

if not msg.Send(strSMTPServer ) then
Response.write "<pre>" & msg.log & "</pre>"
else
Response.write "Message sent successfully!"
end if

end if

' Clear the object
set msg = nothing
%>
</body>
</html>

Put it in your cgi-bin directory, and then copy and modify the following code and place it in your HTML page in the root directory. You should then modify the line:
$Recipient = "info\@$domain";
so that "info" reads whatever email address you want it sent to (where $domain is your domain name with us).
(If you want the output of the program to not be displayed then put comment out the last few lines (using "###" at the front of each line).
(Note: This program is in place of SendMail programs which are sometimes used.)

Use a similar HTML file as the following to get people to fill in and send the information to you, and put it into the cgi-bin folder.:

<html> <head> <title>emailform</title> </head> <body> <form method="post" action="SendMail.asp"> Complete this form and click the Submit button. <br><br> Your name<br> <input type="text" size="25" name="name"><br> Your email<br> <input type="text" size="25" name="email"><br> Recipient email<br> <input type="text" size="25" name="recipient"><br> State your business<br> <select name="subject" size="1"> <option value="help">help <option value="tips">tips <option value="other">other </select> <br> Enter your question<br> <textarea name="body" cols="40" rows="15" wrap="PHYSICAL"></textarea> <br> <input type="submit" value="Submit"> </form> </body> </html>

CGI/Perl

Your website allows you to run dynamic programs on our servers which enables you to present an interactive solution to your customers. Your website includes a directory called /cgi-bin/ where you should put these programs. Your absolute server path to the cgi-bin which you may need to know to create your scripts is "e:\domains\m\yourchosendomainname.com\user\htdocs\cgi-bin\" (where yourchosendomainname.co.uk is the domain name we told you to use as your FTP username for uploading in your FTP program).

There are hundreds of free and cheap CGI programs you can use on our servers. Have a look at the following site for a good selection of them. Note that you should pick those which work for Windows NT not Unix (it is possible some of the Unix programs work also under Windows too but do not rely on this).

http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/

We cannot support or help you with writing or modifying these scripts, although we can help if you need to know anything specific about our servers in order to make your scripts run.

Perl is automatically recognised by our servers so you do not need to tell your script where the files are.