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I have created a order form and have it set to be e-mailed to my e-mail. It
shows that I have everything correct, but now that it is published and you
click on the submit button he says webroot-self and then goes to another page
with an error. I have looked over everything and can not figure out what else
to do. Any suggestions
 
chicsweety said:
I have created a order form and have it set to be e-mailed to my e-mail. It
shows that I have everything correct, but now that it is published and you
click on the submit button he says webbot-self and then goes to another page
with an error. I have looked over everything and can not figure out what else
to do. Any suggestions
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Did you HTTP publish the page to a server running the FrontPage
extensions?
What is the error message?
A link to the faulty page may also help diagnose the problem.

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Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
 
Can we see this in action?...like; post the URL to the site page with the
problem?



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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression
 
chicsweety said:
Sorry meant to say webbot-self instead of webroot , its one of those days
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I think that error comes up because the FPSE are *not* installed.

Check with your host to ensure they have enabled the mail-sending aspect of
the FPSE and that they are in fact installed and working correctly.

Make sure you published by HTTP mode not FTP. Publish FTP will risk
corrupting the extensions and give you problems such as the one you have
presented here.
 
also, when you get the error page issue fixed...it still may not be able to
send to an AOL email address - many hosts do not allow the form handler to
send outside of the domain, so it may have to be an email addr at
centurytitlelc.com




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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression
 
While my host will allow form email to any domain, when I see a
website/domain that has an AOL or Hotmail, Yahoo etc for their contact
email address in place of a domain address, I think novice or amateur.

I can't figure out why domain owners don't set up their mail to go
through their domain...
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With that said, look at your code, you have the submit button as a
"mailto" link
http://www.centurytitlelc.com/order_form.htm

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Order">
<INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Submit Form" name="Submit"></a>
<INPUT TYPE=RESET VALUE="Reset Form">
</FORM>

All hitting the "submit" did for me was to open my email program...

I copied your form, substituted my own email address here:

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="--WEBBOT-SELF--" name="Order Form">
<!--WEBBOT BOT=SaveResults S-Email-Format="TEXT/PRE"
S-Email-Address="djones@my_domain.com" B-Email-Label-Fields="TRUE"
B-Email-Subject-From-Field="FALSE" S-Email-Subject="Order"
S-Builtin-Fields

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Then deleted the "mailto" link on the submit button and it worked
fine.

<INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Submit Form" name="Submit"></a>
<INPUT TYPE=RESET VALUE="Reset Form">
</FORM>


DJ
 
Oops, forgot that domain does not have the FPSEs installed, got this
error, so that may be the root of your initial problem:

"The requested URL /--WEBBOT-SELF-- was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to
use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
------------------------------

Try this URL to see how it should work:

http://www.englishheritagemasonry.com/order_form_test.htm

DJ
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Remove the hyperlink from your submit button
- it blocks the form from being sent
You have
<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Order">
<INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Submit Form" name="Submit"></a>
and should just have
<INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Submit Form" name="Submit">
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| http://www.centurytitlelc.com/
| If you click on set up it will take you to the page I have that I need to go
| to my e-mail.
|
| "Andrew Murray" wrote:
|
| >
| >
| > | > > Sorry meant to say webbot-self instead of webroot , its one of those days
| > >
| > > "chicsweety" wrote:
| > >
| > >> I have created a order form and have it set to be e-mailed to my e-mail.
| > >> It
| > >> shows that I have everything correct, but now that it is published and
| > >> you
| > >> click on the submit button he says webroot-self and then goes to another
| > >> page
| > >> with an error. I have looked over everything and can not figure out what
| > >> else
| > >> to do. Any suggestions
| >
| >
| > I think that error comes up because the FPSE are *not* installed.
| >
| > Check with your host to ensure they have enabled the mail-sending aspect of
| > the FPSE and that they are in fact installed and working correctly.
| >
| > Make sure you published by HTTP mode not FTP. Publish FTP will risk
| > corrupting the extensions and give you problems such as the one you have
| > presented here.
| >
 
I suggest you take the order form supplied as a sample with Publisher and
insert it onto an empty form, inserting an email address within the domain
when demanded and "publish" it to a host with FPE installed and checked to be
installed. It fails with the webbot-self /Error 404 fault.

As an aside Vista x64 doesn't recognise mapping network drives of the form
http://blogsite.co.uk:2077/foldername saying it 'seems' to be an invalid
file same, although IE8 x64 beta is very happy with it, so you can't publish
files from Publisher under Vista, therefore it doesn't work. You can transfer
them one at a time if your host offers an upload service, but then they
aren't "Published" so they don't work.

Going back to XP and returning Vista x64 to the trash can, it would be
interesting to know how you're editing the code as Publisher prevents that by
overwriting any modifications and you can't upload the modified source
because then they aren't "Published"..........

If you attempt to use the hosts source editor Publisher seems to have found
a way of changing some file permissions so that you can change the code, but
you can't write it back.
 
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