SSI Problem
Okay, I'm trying to use SSI for the site that I'm building now. I've used them before but not with a directory structure as deep as this one and that's why I'm having problems.
I've got my include files in a separate include directory, and I want to use those same files on every page in the site and get them to work! So, how can do that and get the links to work and everything? I hope you know what I mean here....
This is the site - if you click on "Athletes" on the left and then any one of the links on that page you'll see what I mean.
Mark Hensler posted this at 16:35 — 11th December 2000.
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could you draw for us a file structure? like:
+folder1-file1
-file2
-file3
+folder2
-file4
+folder3
-file5
are you using file or virtual?
are you using ../?
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Megan posted this at 16:48 — 11th December 2000.
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Here's my file structure so far:
+ Athletes- jwomen.shtml
- swomen.shtml
- wretired.shtml
+ Events
- reports.shtml
- calendar.shtml
- results.shtml
+ results
- nationals.shtml
+ nationals
- 88nats_srw.shtml
+ templates
- header.html
- footer.html
- style.css
.....
That's just part of it right there (and not all of that is uploaded BTW, just the first two levels really) - there will be a lot more eventually.
The SSI code in the second level folders (jwomen.shtml, swomen.shtml etc.) looks like this:
<!--#include virtual="../templates/header.html" -->'Thanks for your help!
Megan
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Jaiem posted this at 16:59 — 11th December 2000.
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Not sure what you mean by "directory structure".
You can definately nest SSI Includes (I do that a lot) and it's shouldn't matter what dir the included file is in. You just provide the virtual path to each file (I don't use the ".." and it works on my servers.)
Megan posted this at 17:39 — 11th December 2000.
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Hmm... i tried that and it didn't work... I'll try again on a different server account.
NSS posted this at 01:14 — 12th December 2000.
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I agree with Jaiem, I don't use the period in front of the file path and it works on my server.
Using the 2 periods in front of the file path cause an error for me. Maybe it can't find the sub-directory and file as the period could mean 2 levels down as in DOS.
[Edited by NSS on Dec. 11, 2000 at 08:31 PM]
AndyB posted this at 03:57 — 12th December 2000.
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dumb trick may help ... put an image in the same folder as the includes, then create a link from your top level html files to the image. If the image shows, then you have the correct relative path to the includes folder.
But - once the included file is included in an upper level html file its intrinsic relative link structure will be different from its 'natural' state ... if you know what I mean????
Mark Hensler posted this at 04:21 — 12th December 2000.
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good point AndyB!
you should use full paths for images inside included files.
at work I use file="../../file.asp". it's on an NT server with IIS.
at home I use virtual="../file.html". it's on a *nix box with apache.
it may just be the way your web server is set up...
try file="/dir/file.ext" this will start at the root dir
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