Editing existing CGI forms.

[view askew]

I'm very new to CGI forms, but had some questions. There are existing CGI forms on the website I do some contract work for. Most of the form updating I'm doing is only minor text changes for the moment. Also, they use Dreamweaver for FTP & it's an Apache web server if that makes any difference.

Anyways, do I simply make the changes and reupload and it should be fine? Or do I need to chmod 755 the file? Are there any other steps I'm missing? Thanks in advance.

[KevinADC]

forms send data to server side scripts. If you do not change the script that parses the data to reflect the changes in the form the new form will not work properly. If the form is in an html document you shouldn't need to set permissions at all.

[KevinADC]

There is one exception: a form that sends data to an email address in the 'action=' attribute of the form tag does not use a server side script. It opens the clients default email application and sends the raw data in an email.

[view askew]

Ok, cool. Appreciate it. :thumbsup: