Trouble with Server Side Includes

BGarner · Jan 18th, 2007, 23:26

I'm using ASP, but I think my problem can be solved with PHP, so feel free to move this moderators.

Okay, down to business. I am currently using the command  to insert my navigation into my page. That works great on the home page, but the problem lies in how the file must be called. The include virtual command requires that the file navbar.inc be called using a relative URL.

Example

If the site using the command is... "www.mydomain.com"
...then in order to call... "www.mydomain.com/navbar.inc"
...I input...

...at "www.mydomain.com"

BUT!!! (and here's my question) what if I want to divide my site up onto folders as most web designers do.

Now the site using the command is...
"www.mydomain.com/chocolate_rules"
...but I want to use the same navbar.inc file at...
"www.mydomain.com/navbar.inc"

Now, inputting  yields the file at...
"www.mydomain.com/chocolate_rules/navbar.inc"
...which is non-existant

ASP is picky and won't allow an absolute URL, it must be relative. I want more than one folder, so linking up from the home page works only on the home page and in one folder. Can someone tell me how to take "mydomain.com/chocolate_rules" and include the xhtml at "mydomain.com/navbar.inc"

Thanks!

alexk13 · Jan 19th, 2007, 02:34

I always try to use virtual includes, but i always makesure it in including relative to the root directory of my website, by putting a / before the filename:

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<!--#include virtual="/navbar.inc" -->

By doing this, i can keep all my included file in a common place (normally a folder named common in my case) and then include them like this:

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<!--#include virtual="/common/navbar.inc" -->

This will work for including files from any directory in your website - you just have to know the path to the file starting in the root directory.

HTH
Alex

BGarner · Jan 19th, 2007, 21:26

Okay,

I tried it and it's not working for me. I am using the domain www.ldstroop21.org I input  and you can see it at...

www.ldstroop21.org/common/navbar.inc

but look...

www.ldstroop21.org/site.php

The navigation (white bar across the screen) is empty. No error message or anything.

BGarner · Jan 20th, 2007, 17:16

Haha,

Wow I am dumb. I had tried your idea before, but It never worked. I just realized that I should probably name the extention to shtml for it to work. lol. Thanks for your help anyways!