How do I get a form to submit to my email? Says URL not found

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I set up a form in MicroSoft FrontPage for people to RSVP online to my
wedding. I made the submit button a hyperlink to my email
(mailto:myemailaddress). When I try it out, it doesn't submit the form. A
page pops up saying URL not found. Please help!!! The website is
www.jasonandjessicaery.com/RSVPtrialpage3.html.

Any help is appreciated!!

Thanks,
Jessica
 
NurseJBM said:
I set up a form in MicroSoft FrontPage for people to RSVP online to my
wedding. I made the submit button a hyperlink to my email
(mailto:myemailaddress). When I try it out, it doesn't submit the
form. A page pops up saying URL not found. Please help!!! The website
is www.jasonandjessicaery.com/RSVPtrialpage3.html.

Any help is appreciated!!

Thanks,
Jessica
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I would guess that the webbot has somehow corrupted the form.

You have
<form method="POST" name="RSVP" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">

Try making it
<form method="POST" name="RSVP" action="">
and see what happens
 
Look at the source, in FP or in the browser - right-click, View Source. At
the top of the form near the <form> tag, the "U-File" attribute points to
your hard drive, not to a web address - that's your problem.

U-File="C:\Documents and Settings\Jessica\My
Documents\Wedding\Website\_private\form_results.txt"

This should be (something like)
http://www.yoursite.com/_private/form_results.text
not commencing "C:\....."

Which suggests you don't have a site open, only a page. Make sure your FP
web/site is open first, then open the page.

Are you trying to send this form data using the Frontpage Server Extensions,
and in which case, are you publishing via HTTP mode in Frontpage?

If not, then you need a third party script to send the email. (there's
plenty out there) start on www.hotscripts.com
or even http://www.ezmailer.net/ if you're on a Unix/Linux server.
 
FP will never process an absolute URL as a web form property
It needs to be a relative URL as in
U-File="_private\form_results.txt"


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| Look at the source, in FP or in the browser - right-click, View Source. At
| the top of the form near the <form> tag, the "U-File" attribute points to
| your hard drive, not to a web address - that's your problem.
|
| U-File="C:\Documents and Settings\Jessica\My
| Documents\Wedding\Website\_private\form_results.txt"
|
| This should be (something like)
| http://www.yoursite.com/_private/form_results.text
| not commencing "C:\....."
|
| Which suggests you don't have a site open, only a page. Make sure your FP
| web/site is open first, then open the page.
|
| Are you trying to send this form data using the Frontpage Server Extensions,
| and in which case, are you publishing via HTTP mode in Frontpage?
|
| If not, then you need a third party script to send the email. (there's
| plenty out there) start on www.hotscripts.com
| or even http://www.ezmailer.net/ if you're on a Unix/Linux server.
|
|
|
|
| | >I set up a form in MicroSoft FrontPage for people to RSVP online to my
| > wedding. I made the submit button a hyperlink to my email
| > (mailto:myemailaddress). When I try it out, it doesn't submit the form. A
| > page pops up saying URL not found. Please help!!! The website is
| > www.jasonandjessicaery.com/RSVPtrialpage3.html.
| >
| > Any help is appreciated!!
| >
| > Thanks,
| > Jessica
|
|
 
1) Make sure you are working in a FP web (not just a page)
2) Change your form properties save result location to be a relative location w/ your FP web
U-File="_private\form_results.txt"
3) Remove the illegal hyperlink from within the form and add a submit button
Change
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">mailto:[email protected]</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2">
To
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1">
4) Check w/ your host if they support Email forms to outside of the server (most don't)
- yours send to S-Email-Address="(e-mail address removed)"
- you may need to send it to a mailbox on your server as in
S-Email-Address="(e-mail address removed)"
--

_____________________________________________
SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
"Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
To find the best Newsgroup for FrontPage support see:
http://www.frontpagemvps.com/FrontPageNewsGroups/tabid/53/Default.aspx
_____________________________________________


|I set up a form in MicroSoft FrontPage for people to RSVP online to my
| wedding. I made the submit button a hyperlink to my email
| (mailto:myemailaddress). When I try it out, it doesn't submit the form. A
| page pops up saying URL not found. Please help!!! The website is
| www.jasonandjessicaery.com/RSVPtrialpage3.html.
|
| Any help is appreciated!!
|
| Thanks,
| Jessica
 
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