bizarre php/iis error (can't submit forms).

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January 18th, 2005, 06:24 PM

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bizarre php/iis error (can't submit forms).

Hi...I have already posted in php forum but was told to ask here as the problem has been sourced to IIS...anyone got any ideas on the following? Thanks.

ORIGINAL QUESTION:

Ok, this is just ridiculous. First let me just say, I have flushed my IE cache etc etc, and check IIS permissions...

I am now on the point of severely damaging a computer peripheral... I have a page. It's a nice simple page. All it does is either a) forward to another page or b) forward to another page.

The first forward is done by clicking on the zone of a map which is mapped with postcodes. This works fine.

The second one is the user types in a postcode and hits search which submits the form to another page. This does not work. I get a "page not found" error. Why?? Its EXACTLY the same page name. It's something to do with submitting a form by the looks of it. Whatever page I try to submit to I get "page not found". The code for the form is:

PHP Code:


		
			
<form action="index.php" method="POST" name="postcodeSearch" id="postcodeSearch"> 

<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="visitSponsorTextBlack">Fill in your postcode and press search 

<br> 

<input type="text" name="postcodeReturn"> 

<br> 

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Search"> 

</td></form>

January 18th, 2005, 09:41 PM

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Does php run on your IIS server for other php pages? Did your page ever work?

What are the details of your error. If you're using IE uncheck the "show friendly http errors" setting and you'll usually get a longer and more helpful error message.

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January 19th, 2005, 02:24 AM

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Thanks for replying.

The page used to work fine - and its not just this page. I have realised none of my forms will submit.

I ran MS IIS lockdown tool....was this a bad idea? I am guessing it probably was as it came from MS

PHP is running fine on the web server, I am using it on plenty of pages.

Unfortunately turning off friendly http messages was the first thing I thought of and it had no effect. It just can't find a form is the submit method is POST. It will find it if I change the submit method to GET. Is that a clue?

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