I am in the process of setting up a Mail Merge Forms page, and have gotten the dreaded "Permission denied" msg when I submit a test msg. From the Rootsweb Mail Merge site comes this explanation: <<Some Common Problems The most common problem using Mail Merge is setting your output files incorrectly. If your output file is not set to be read and writeable then your user will get a "permission denied" error message. If that happens, you will need to use your FTP client to make the file "world writable." >> Now I have just been through every single option on WS-FTP trying to figure out how to make my file "world writable" and have come up with a goose egg. My page can be seen at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/HatForm.htm Anyone know what it is I'm supposed to do?? Thanks bunches, Nel

At 12:30 PM 02/12/2001 -0700, Nel Hatcher wrote: > >I am in the process of setting up a Mail Merge Forms page, and have gotten >the dreaded "Permission denied" msg when I submit a test msg. > >>From the Rootsweb Mail Merge site comes this explanation: > ><<Some Common Problems >The most common problem using Mail Merge is setting your output files >incorrectly. If your output file is not set to be read and writeable then >your user will get a "permission denied" error message. If that happens, you >will need to use your FTP client to make the file "world writable." >> > >Now I have just been through every single option on WS-FTP trying to figure >out how to make my file "world writable" and have come up with a goose egg. > >My page can be seen at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/HatForm.htm > >Anyone know what it is I'm supposed to do?? To make a file world writable with WS_FTP, highlight the file on the server and then right click the file. In the dropdown menu, select "chmod (Unix)". Then just make sure the checkmark is in the "Write" box in all three columns. However, you have another problem -- your <form> tag reads: <form action="/cgi-bin/mailmerge.cgi/u1/nhatcher/public_html/quer y.txt" method="POST"> Notice the carriage return in the middle of the file name "query.txt" -- you need to close that up onto a single line. You're also missing the periods which act as section separators in your template file. YOu need one on the line before "OUTPUT_FORM=" Regards, Elsi > >Thanks bunches, >Nel > > >============================== >Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate >your heritage! >http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > >