Socket error 111 Failed opening 'formmail-postconfig.inc.php'

[cavu]

Formmail with fmbadhandler the form on www.vuyk.eu/contact/ allways used to work fine until I changed providers.
Now, onsubmit, in the browser it says:

Cannot open template 'http://www.vuyk.eu/onvolledige_contactaanvr?USER_AGENT=Mozilla%2F5.0+%28Windows+NT+6.1%3B+WOW64%3B+rv%3A24.0%29+Gecko%2F20100101+Firefox%2F24.0&sessid=67a04d3750d883ba4dccb7852b85b75f&':

Formmail sends 2 mails:

The following error occurred in FormMail : mail_failed ********** Error=Failed to send email

and:

The following error occurred in FormMail : Socket error 111: Connection refused: include() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening 'formmail-postconfig.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear')

I posted a post of this problem earlier, but that didn't get any response.
Perhaps I wasn't clear or this is some kind of esoteric problem no one has encountered yet?
Now I tried to be as distinct as possible.
Thanks for any reply!

[djdevine]

I'm having a similar error....

The following error occurred in FormMail :
Socket error 0: : include() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening 'formmail-postconfig.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php')

What confuses me is that these lines below are in in the FormMail script (ver 8.36) but I haven't created either of these files because I do not need them..... unless this error means I DO need them.

Documentation is really sketchy on this...

@include("formmail-preconfig.inc.php");


@include("formmail-postconfig.inc.php");

Can someone shed some light on the error and also let me know is these two files must be created? If not, then should those 2 lines be commented out in the FormMail script?

[russellr]

Hi,

That seems very strange.

No, you don't need these files. They exist for hooking in additional PHP code into FormMail's processing.

If they don't exist, the situation is simply ignored.

But, apparently, on your server it's not ignored.

However, the most likely situation is that the "Socket error 111" is related to something else, such as TEMPLATEURL or MULTIFORMURL.

If you have either of these settings in use, then it seems that either your server cannot contact the URL (that's what 111 means - connection refused).

Sometimes PHP's errors get conflated together. Focus on the "Socket error 111" as being the issue.

BTW, you can use our Hosted Forms service and avoid all issues with PHP on your server.