[JStergis]

Here's the situation:

I've had my site : http://wild-peru.110mb.com/ hosted on that server for about 2 years, and I can't believe how good it is for a free server. The one issue is, I have two forms on my site, a contact form and a Newsletter subscription form. I've been hosting them on Verizon's server as they offer a form-mail cgi script.

The script used to work fine, but for about the past 3 months it has been acting up to the point where it sometimes sends me the data and sometimes just gives an error to whoever submitted the form. When it does send the data, it seems to take at least a week to arrive in my inbox.

I've had IIS set up on my machine for some time with a dyndns domain that was linked to my router so when the ip changes, it edits the dyndns listing. What I want to do is host those two pages on my own server.

Provided I do this, what are my options for sending the data to myself, and how do I do this? Adding it to a text file would work fine, e-mailing would work fine, etc. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Joe

[Anthony:-P]

Originally Posted by JStergis

I've had IIS set up on my machine for some time with a dyndns domain that was linked to my router so when the ip changes, it edits the dyndns listing. What I want to do is host those two pages on my own server.

Hi Joe,

Just trying to get my head round this one, are you saying that the scripts that process the form at not on the same server as your host??

Kind Regards,
Anthony

[awatson]

You'll have to set up the two pages on your machine, as well as some way to process the server results. I don't really know who to do this in IIS - I'm sure it's possible though. If you can get PHP or somethign working, it should be easy enough to just save the data in a local directory. You'll need to redirect all links point to these pages on your website to point to the pages on your IIS server - might be worth doing 301 redirects if the web host will let you.

[JStergis]

Originally Posted by Anthony:-P

Hi Joe,

Just trying to get my head round this one, are you saying that the scripts that process the form at not on the same server as your host??

Kind Regards,
Anthony

Yup, Verizon would only let you run their script if your page was on their server (not that it actually works more than 1/2 the time anyway)

What I want to do now is just put two of the form pages and the "results sent" page on my machine with IIS and leave the rest on my main server linked over to here with a dyndns name and port number.

I've gotten everything taken care of up to where to save form results.

Originally Posted by awatson

You'll have to set up the two pages on your machine, as well as some way to process the server results. I don't really know who to do this in IIS - I'm sure it's possible though. If you can get PHP or somethign working, it should be easy enough to just save the data in a local directory. You'll need to redirect all links point to these pages on your website to point to the pages on your IIS server - might be worth doing 301 redirects if the web host will let you.

Okay, so if I'm reading through all this right, you're saying PHP should work to save form results someplace? I'm not sure how to go about doing that. I'm very comfotable with CSS and HTML and have been writing the former since the 4th grade, but I've never even attempted PHP.

[awatson]

Yes - you need some sort of script that will take the results from the form and save it in some useful way. PHP one way to do it, and I'm pretty sure you can use it on an IIS server... There's probably lots of other options as well.