[devtalk] ssi virtual - site check please

[Ross Clutterbuck]

joseph harris wrote:
> From: "David Precious" 
>   
>> joseph harris wrote:
>>     
>>> From: "David Precious"
>>>       
>>>> joseph harris wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Thanks, Patrick. Part of my trouble was wanting to use the same text
>>>>> file for all folders, or rather the same SSI instruction. I've set up
>>>>> a second text  file for all sub folders since they need a different
>>>>> src. 
>>>>>           
>>>> Why? Assuming they're all trying to call the same image, why do you need 
>>>> two separate files?
>>>>         
>>> What I seem to face is this:
>>> SSI calls text file
>>> shmtl in main folder calls image in text file from sub-folder
>>> shtml in sub folder calls image from sister folder.
>>>
>>> Using EasyPHP and testing in html-kit I could not find a common format.
>>>
>>> main folder text has SRC="images/pound_page_head3.gif" called by <!--#include virtual="sitepagehead.txt"-->
>>>
>>> subfolder text has src="../images/pound_page_head3.gif" called by <!--#include virtual="../sitepageheadotherfolders.txt"--> [text file is in main folder]
>>>       
>> Ugh.
>>
>> Just call it with a full path from the root, e.g. 
>> src="/images/pound_page_head3.gif", and all will be well.
>>
>> Same goes for the SSI includes, too.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Dave P
>>     
>
> That's what I started with. I've just done a test and this is the response [an error occurred while processing this directive] on both a main folder page, and a subfolder.
>
> the test text file has src="/images/pound_page_head3.gif"
> the test shtml files have  <!--#include virtual="/test.txt-->
>
> The main folder works on src="images/pound_page_head3.gif" in the test file
> This works on existing sub-folder pages, but now not on the test src="../images/pound_page_head3.gif"
>
> On the face of it there is obvious error by me... But it is all cut and paste, from working to test. And IE is doing the same as html-kit, so the fault isn't in the program. I'm going to have to leave it for now and go down the path that is working. It is a mystery which I'll solve later.
>
> Thanks for the help and advice. 
>
> Joseph
>
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>   
Don't use ../ anywhere in any file to define a path - do every single 
one as a full path from root to debug the thing and then change any ones 
you think are unnecessary.

It's a shot

Ross