Problem with ColdFusion email form

[MDLarson]

First off, I am not a programmer. So speak slowly so I can understand this stuff.

I'm trying to setup a feedback form on my wife's website using ColdFusion. You can take a look at the form code in the page, but here's the entire contents of "emailer.cfm":

<cfmail to="#form.recipient#" cc="#form.email#" from="#form.email#" subject="ProlificPen.com Inquiry">Contact Name: #form.name#
Email Address: #form.email#
Phone Number: #form.phone#

Company: #form.company#
Address: #form.address#
City: #form.city#
State: #form.state#
Zip Code: #form.zip#

Service: #form.service#
--------------------------------------------------------------
#form.message#
--------------------------------------------------------------</cfmail>
<cflocation url="thank_you.html">

The problem is that every time I click the submit button, I get an error message; "The specified module could not be found." All 3 files (index.html, emailer.cfm and thank_you.html) are in the same directory, so I shouldn't have any broken links, but I'm sort of lost here.

p.s. I also can use PHP to process this contact form, but I don't know where to start with that. Maybe it's easier? Does anybody have a nice quick example of that?

(edit was to fix link)

[TommyWillB]

You did not give us enough info...

Is this the form URL you meant to give us?

(To me this does NOT look like a ColdFusion error, unless they've neatened it up since CF 5. This look more like an Apache error.)

Does a normal test.cfm page (maybe printing the date) work? (i.e. is ColdFusion configured and functional?)

Can you give us the emailer.cfm code so we can see where you are a calling modules and how?

Do you have includes that might have nested module includes?

[MDLarson]

Crap, I did give out the wrong link. Yes, that's the link! Sorry 'bout that. The emailer.cfm code is the quoted text above. I can attach the text file if you want, but it's all there.

I really have no ColdFusion smarts besides a teensy itsy bit of code (like the emailer). I've been told ColdFusion is installed on the server but I have no verification that it's functioning.

What is a "module" anyway?

Thanks for your help!

[teamteama]

Yeah, thats not a CF error. Or at-least not specifically a CF error. It could be a apache config problem. Specifically in the way that apache passes off the request to the CF engine. When apache gets a request for a *.cfm page, it *should* pass it to the CF server. It looks like this is not happening. Adding a module to apache is a common way of extending functionality. This is as much as I know on the subject. I have not had much experience running CF with apache.

[TommyWillB]

Right... If you are seeing raw CFML on screen, then absolutely Apache is failing to pass this off to ColdFusion.

What module are you ussing... Are you doing ColdFusion MX /J2EE?

[MDLarson]

Right... If you are seeing raw CFML on screen, then absolutely Apache is failing to pass this off to ColdFusion.

What module are you ussing... Are you doing ColdFusion MX /J2EE?

Thanks for the info; it sounds like I don't have it configured wrong - I think. And I'm not kidding; I really don't know anything about ColdFusion; all I have is Dreamweaver MX - all ColdFusion is to me is a few lines of code somebody did for me before. I don't have ColdFusion MX or J2EE or anything; just TextEdit!!!

This issue has always been frustrating for me. I consider web forms to be somewhat elementary; even a necessity for a business website. Plus I consider myself a pretty sharp guy, but for some reason, I have a hard time grasping website forms. Part of the issue is with me, as I've never setup a webserver. But... I dunno. Again, thanks for the help!

[TommyWillB]

ColdFusion is both the name of thier Server as well as the name of their Web editor... That confuses a lot of people.

If you don't have a ColdFusion server running, then you can't run any CFML ColdFusion code.... Stick to plain old HTML. (No HTML can not process forms...)