What goes in the cgi-bin so my form on my website can work?

Thanks,
Michelle Rossfeld

The cgi-bin folder contains any scripts used to process your form, for example a perl script. This would be something you wrote, or modified from something you found online.

Ithe script I will put in my cgi-bin: ( or do have to create a script or have someone create for me. I am not sure what perl is)

<form action="http://www.michellerossfeld.com/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl method="post"><input type="hidden" value=contact@ michellerossfeld.com name="recipient"> <input type="hidden" value="Subject of Emails Sent to You" name="subject">
<TABLE width="368" height="337" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=3>
<CENTER>
<TR>
<TD colSpan=2 height=29> <P align=left><B><FONT face=Arial size=1>Please
take a moment to fill out the following newsletter
request. Newletters are sent out monthly. All
information will be kept confidential. Fields
in <FONT color=#6699FF>Light Blue</FONT> are required.</FONT></B></P></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD noWrap bgColor=#003399 colSpan=2
height=28><P align=left><FONT color="#FFFFFF" size=2 face=Arial><B>Contact
Information:</B></FONT></P></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD noWrap align=right width="50%" height=28><div align="left"><FONT
face=Arial color=#6699FF size=2><B>Name :</B></FONT></div></TD>
<TD width="50%" height=28><FONT face=Arial
size=2><B>
<INPUT
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #FFFFFF 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #FFFFFF2px solid; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10px; BORDER-LEFT: #FFFFFF 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #FFFFFF 2px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
size=22 name=name>
</B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD noWrap align=right width="50%" height=28><div align="left"><FONT
face=Arial size=2><B>Company Name :</B></FONT></div></TD>
<TD width="50%" height=28><FONT face=Arial
size=2><B>
<INPUT
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #FFFFFF 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #FFFFFF 2px solid; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10px; BORDER-LEFT: #FFFFFF 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #FFFFFF 2px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
size=22 name=company>
</B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD noWrap align=right width="50%" height=28><div align="left"><FONT color="#6699FF" size=2
face=Arial><B>Phone :</B></FONT></div></TD>
<TD width="50%" height=28><FONT face=Arial
size=1><B>
<INPUT
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #FFFFFF 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #FFFFFF 2px solid; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10px; BORDER-LEFT: #FFFFFF 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #FFFFFF 2px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
size=22 name=phone_no>
</B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD noWrap align=right width="50%" height=29><div align="left"><FONT
face=Arial size=2><B>Fax :&nbsp;</B></FONT></div></TD>
<TD width="50%" height=29><FONT face=Arial
size=2><B>
<INPUT
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #FFFFFF 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #FFFFFF 2px solid; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10px; BORDER-LEFT: #FFFFFF 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #FFFFFF 2px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
size=22 name=fax_no>
</B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD noWrap align=right width="50%" height=29><div align="left"><FONT
face=Arial color=#6699FF size=2><B>E-mail :</B></FONT></div></TD>
<TD width="50%" height=29><FONT face=Arial
size=2><B>
<INPUT
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #FFFFFF 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #FFFFFF 2px solid; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10px; BORDER-LEFT: #FFFFFF 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #FFFFFF 2px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
size=22 name=email>
</B></FONT></TD>
</TR>
</center>
<TR>
<TD noWrap width="50%" height=14> <P align=right><B><FONT face=Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif size=2>How
did you hear about us :</FONT></B></P></TD>
<CENTER>
<TD width="50%" height=14><SELECT
style="BORDER-RIGHT: #003399 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #003399 2px solid; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10px; BORDER-LEFT: #003399 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0033992px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
size=5 name=link_from>
<option selected>••&nbsp;&nbsp; please choose
one&nbsp; ••</option>
<option value="Google">Website</option>
<option value="U of M">Advertisement</option>
<option value="Looksmart">Friend</option>
<option value="Yahoo">Google</option>
<option value="MSN">Yahoo</option>
<option value="Other">Other</option>
</SELECT></TD>
</center>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD noWrap width="50%" height=14></TD>
<TD width="50%" height=14><p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>
<INPUT style="BORDER-RIGHT: #003399 3px solid; BORDER-TOP: #003399 px solid; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BORDER-LEFT: #003399 3px solid; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #003399 3px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #CCCCCC" type=submit value="s u b m i t" name=submit>
</p></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</FORM><br>
</p>
</div></td>
<td width="21" align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>

I noticed you are on a server running Windows, so I don't believe it needs to go inside the cgi-bin folder, although it makes things easier.

I'm also not exactly a big fan of using FormMail, I prefer ASPmail whenever I can use it. Here is more about it, http://hostmysite.com/support/programming/aspmail/