You really need to post more complete data about the subdomain -- such as, where is its cgi-bin in relation to the page from which index.html is served... and what the structural relationship is between the page with the form and the location of your problem children. I'm looking for ASCII art or an absolutely unambiguous narrative so I can feel confident that I know what you're trying to tell me.

At one point above, you cite what appears to be an attept to use an absolute path:

www.mywebsite/cgi-bin/formmail.

To me, it looks as though you've concealed the TLD for no reason or don't understand paths. And if you're using this to execute formmail.pl, formail.cgi or something else, you're either missing the file extension or have formmail.pl stashed in a subdir of cgi-bin (which your host may not have setup as an directory with executables) and have not included the executable's name at all.

That kind of thing -- narrative that is, at best, ambiguous until you clarify, and clearly errorneous technical data like that cited above -- makes it very difficult to offer prescriptions for a fix. It's like asking an MD to prescribe when it's not clear whether you have appendicitis or food poisoning.

And just BTW, it's a really good idea to log in, since you are a Monk... because you can't fix -- for example -- your typos in that which you post anonymously... and we can't be sure the posts actually come from you (as opposed -- for example -- from a troll trying to confuse your issues).

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