Mark Hensler — Tue, 12 Dec 2000 04:21:14 +0000

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

AndyB — Tue, 12 Dec 2000 03:57:35 +0000

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????

NSS — Tue, 12 Dec 2000 01:14:11 +0000

I agree with Jaiem, I don't use the period in front of the file path and it works on my server.

Quote:
(I don't use the ".." and it works on my servers.)

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]

Megan — Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:39:15 +0000

Hmm... i tried that and it didn't work... I'll try again on a different server account.

Jaiem — Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:59:07 +0000

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 — Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:48:50 +0000

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:

'

Thanks for your help!

Mark Hensler — Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:35:35 +0000

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 ../?