Server Error - Please Help!

[Anon]

My PHP scripts were running fine on my test server. When I transferred them to my live server this morning, I get this error:

Warning: Server Error in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\alumni\mail.php on line 22

The line 22 contains the code
");
and is part of this section of coding:

<?
/ this script will handle the variables passed from the alumni files /

PRINT "<center>";
PRINT "Thank you for sending your address for the alumni newsletter<br><br>";
PRINT "<a href='http://www.waldorf.edu/alumni.htm'>Return to the Alumni page</a>";
PRINT "</center>";

?>
<?
mail ("[e-mail]",
"Include me in the alumni newsletter",
"Please include my email in the alumni newsletter.
Email = $textfield
");

?>

This is happening on every single form, always referencing the "); line. Since this code works fine on the testing server could there be a setting wrong on the new server? Any other suggestions? For now I have pointed the forms on the new server to the php files on the test server and it works fine, but is definitely not a long term solution. Our NEW network administrator has NO CLUE and refuses to help. She thinks it must be an error in my coding (not that she has looked) and that its definitely none of her doing. Thanks.

[Anon]

change this:

mail ("[e-mail]",
"Include me in the alumni newsletter",
"Please include my email in the alumni newsletter.
Email = $textfield
");

to look like this:

mail ("[e-mail]",
"Include me in the alumni newsletter",
"Please include my email in the alumni newsletter. Email = $textfield");

[peterprins]

mail() cannot find an email server to send the email.

Also this means that it is now running on a windows machine:

Warning: Server Error in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\alumni\mail.php on line 22

Your test server is probably a Unix/Linux machine.

The mail() function uses sendmail on unix machines to send email but windows machines don't have sendmail.

In the php.ini file (this can be found at c:\winnt\php.ini) there is the following:

[mail function]
SMTP = localhost ;for win32 only
sendmail_from = [e-mail] ;for win32 only
;sendmail_path = ;for unix only, may supply arguments as well (default is 'sendmail -t -i')

This has to be setup correctly for the mail() function to work and has to point to a SMTP server that will send your email.

Windows servers by default do not have any POP (incoming mail) or SMTP (outgoing mail) services running. This is because they want people to buy Microsoft Exchange for lots of cash.

There is however an SMTP service that can be installed in Internet Services Manager to send or relay email to a mail server (but not receive)

The SMTP Service is probably not installed and configured in the Internet Services Manager on that machine.

If your network admin has no clue then she should try basket weaving as a vocation 😉

This is an Admin issue and requires Administrative access to the server in order to configure it.

[Anon]

Is there a way that I can send the email on a windows machine, different code I can use? I have never used PHP on a windows server. I am sending her your instructions on how to set things up, but I am doubtful she will get it done and would like to have a backup plan. If she would give me access I would do it myself.

<vent>Somedays I do think basket weaving would be a better choice for her. I think the problem really is that she has done nothing but administer windows networks that don't have anything to do with the web. I am also currently unable to FTP, Telnet, etc. because of the new firewall that she put in place last week and she is clueless about that as well. </vent>

[Anon]

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that, but it makes no difference where the code is placed. That makes me think its something that happens when it reaches the end of the file or similar.

[cheesehead]

If you can't get access to the php.ini file you can set up the settings in the actual code itself by including:

ini_set("SMTP", "mail server ip address");
ini_set("sendmail_from", "default from address");

It might help thiugh you still need access to a mail server of some kind 🙁