Apache php error

phantom_cyph · 03-17-2008, 06:20 PM

Its probably a PEBKAC problem, but here's what I got.

When you go to my site (currently no domain name), you see this.

Now, if you try and submit something via that form, you see a problem. It forwards you to edmanemail.php...which doesn't do anything.

What do I need to do to make it work?

contact.html is:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
        <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
        charset=utf-8"/>
        </head>

        <title>Contact Me</title>

        <body>
                <form method="POST" action="edmanmail.php">
                        <textarea name="message" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea>
                        <br>
                        <br>
                        <input type="submit" value="Submit">
                </form>
        </body>
</html>

edmanmail.php is:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
        <head>
                <title>
                        Sending email...
                </title>
        </head>

        <body>
                <center>
                <h1>
                        Your email has been sent.
                </h1>
                <?php
                        $result = mail(myemail@yahoo.com), "Web Mail",
                                $_request["message"]);
                ?>
                </center>
        </body>
</html>

httpd.conf file is here.

And yes, I know there is very little security at this point, but I'm worried about functionality right now.

gilead · 03-17-2008, 07:12 PM

Since it's a PHP file that isn't being displayed, can you also post /etc/apache/mod_php.conf please?

phantom_cyph · 03-17-2008, 07:50 PM

I haven't done anything with this file, but here it is.

Wim Sturkenboom · 03-18-2008, 12:04 AM

Check /var/log/httpd/error_log for errors

$_request["message"]; might have to be single quotes (I always use single quotes in arrays)
and you have two ')' in the mail command, so I'm sure you will find something in the above error log

PS This does not sound like a networking question to me

phantom_cyph · 03-18-2008, 03:18 PM

Ok, here is my edmanmail.php now:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
        <head>
                <title>
                        Sending email...
                </title>
        </head>

        <body>
                <center>
                <h1>
                        Your email has been sent.
                </h1>
                <?php
                        $result = mail("fluxnuk3r@yahoo.com", "WebMail",
                                $_request["message"]);
                ?>
                </center>
        </body>
</html>

The problem is, I don't get any mail. How long should it take? And who will it "be from"?

acid_kewpie · 03-18-2008, 04:43 PM

nothing to do with networking. moved to Programming.

phantom_cyph · 03-18-2008, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

nothing to do with networking. moved to Programming.

Understood. Hopefully its figured out though...because I have no idea.

Guttorm · 03-19-2008, 03:51 AM

Hi

You need to change $_request["message"] to $_REQUEST["message"] since variable names are case sensitive in PHP. But still, your code should have sent an empty email. Perhaps some spam filter at Yahoo took it? You can look in the file /var/log/mail.log for information about what happened.

phantom_cyph · 03-19-2008, 10:20 AM

Still not working so well...

What is the best mail service to use with this? I tried to use gmail, but to no avail.

Do I need to somehow set up my mail accout to allow it?

Guttorm · 03-21-2008, 01:35 PM

Hi again

You need to set up the box so it can send email - so you need a MTA. It might be easier to find the error by using the mail command - if it doesn't work, the PHP mail command will not work.

Do you see anything in mail log?

phantom_cyph · 03-21-2008, 01:59 PM

Its trying to send mail now, evidently the problem is that I need to buy a domain name, so I'm working on it now. Gmail and Yahoo! don't accept "raw IPs".

Guttorm · 03-24-2008, 04:28 PM

Why not ask the ISP for the name of their SMTP server? Then setup your MTA with that as a smarthost.