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

From: Sebastijan Petrovic (SebastijanP_at_digitaldanka.com)
Date: 01/27/05

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    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

    -----Original Message-----
    From: redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com
    [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@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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