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From: Andrew Wilson <Andrew.Wilson@cm.cf.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Apache: POST not implemented
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 19:22:27 GMT
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
>dannyman@arh0061.urh.uiuc.edu (Dannyman) wrote:
>
>> 	When I go to use the document 
>> http://arh0061.urh.uiuc.edu/~dannyman/feedback.html and click the "submit" 
>> button, using Matt's Script Archive FormMail.pl, lynx returns the following;
>> 
>> POST to /~dannyman/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl not supported.
>
>Are you sure this is *Apache* complaining?  Perhaps it is *lynx*
>complaining that it cannot handle method POST for forms?  (Perhaps
>your lynx is a little aged already?  I cannot seem to remember such a
>message from lynx.)

My guess is that FormMail.pl punts error messages to stdout (to the
client) as well as to the server's error_log.  Either way, this is Apache
giving you a clue and almost entirely and absolutely nothing to do with
FreeBSD (or any other OS for that matter).  Sit in on 

	<news:comp.infosystems.www.unix.servers>

and you'll se this come up 5 times a day.  The trick is to read the
install script for FormMail.pl and do what it tells you.

Oh and by the way, it *is* a rocket science.

Ay.


>
>-- 
>cheers, J"org
>
>joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
>Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
>