Let's start from scratch. I **believe** you possibly have something awkward in your httpd.conf or an .htaccess or something doing a redirect. Don't worry about postfix or mail right now, PHP has its own internal mail mechanism but it depends entirely on the contents of form.php - that is your first task, get the form submit to hit form.php.
Whenever I hear the word "publish" it opens a whole can of worms - there is no telling what your publish software is doing in the background, which **may** explain how you're getting from "form.php" to '/Dirname//Form-page-files/form.php'. So if you can, open a file browser and look at the directory Dirname.
On that topic, be Very. Careful. with U & LC. Home.html and home.html are two separate files.
So we should be here
localhost/Dirname/Form-page.html
Which in your file structure is actually here
Code:
/var/www/html/Dirname/Form-page.html
Is that correct? And your form HTML contains a method of post with a relative url - since there is no path specified, that would mean it is posting to /var/www/html/Dirname/form.php
Code:
<FORM NAME="info" METHOD="POST" ACTION="form.php" onsubmit="return Validate()">
(BTW although it's irrelevant, the name attribute is only used to capture elements server-side, use ID for DOM manipulation.)
And yet when you submit, it is redirecting to
Code:
localhost/Dirname//Form-page-files/form.php
Something is redirecting, and I would venture to guess a missing element or undefined variable is the cause of the double slash. So the first thing is, in your file browser show hidden files. .htaccess files are hidden by default.
Edit: None of my images ever load on this forum and it totally sucks. 
The above is a capture of where to tell the file browser to show hidden files. It should be the hamburger icon in the upper right of the file browser.
Do you see any .htaccess files? If yes, open them in a plain text editor and post the contents here, or prepend any lines that appear to be executing a redirect with a pound sign, like
Code:
# this line is now commented out and will do nothing
If not there, the configs files they are referring to in the above posts are Apache server config files. I'm not going down that road right now because it's more complex and I don't think there is anything in the server config causing this, I believe it's your publishing software.
No .htaccess files? See if you can force the form post to do what you tell it to! Given that you have this directory structure,
Code:
/var/www/html/Dirname/Form-page.html
/var/www/html/Dirname/form.php
Per your form code above, What you have is a relative link : action='form.php' The POST **should** post in the same directory "Dirname" but for whatever reason it is not. It is always recommended to specifically post links that begin at the document root - in your case that appears to be /var/www/html. From a web page, that is simply '/'. So try this:
Code:
<FORM NAME="info" METHOD="POST" ACTION="/Dirname/form.php">
That may not work as there may be some redirect mechanism capturing requests to the Dirname directory, but it's one thing to eliminate.
You will notice I have also removed the return Validate(). Although in most cases a validation routine simply validates the form and says "okay, go ahead and submit" or stops the submit if there are errors. It is entirely possible that this Validate() may also be responsible for the redirect (I've seen much worse. 
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So let's nail down those two things before proceeding. We've covered two specific possibilities, a redirect cause by the "publish" software and Javascript mucking about with where it's actually posting to.
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Originally Posted by TheFu
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