SSI in sub directories?

[olaf777]

How do I implement Server Side Includes on pages in a sub directory?

I have set up my home page with the head, menu and footer as SSI. I want to use these same htm files for my /information/index.shtml file as well. But its looking for the files in the subdirectory. Obviously making a copy of the files would work, but that kind of defeats the purpose of SSI.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[gokhana]

http://www.webmasterbase.com/article.php?aid=27&pid=0

[duckie]

Use root relative addressing.

I think that's the term for it...

[thespian]

The answer to your problem is simple.

When you want to include a file which is in the same directory, use -

<!--#include file="header.html" -->

otherwise, to reference a file in another directory, use -

<!--#include virtual="/includes/header.html" -->

where the path you supply is with reference to the Root directory.

Go to http://www.stars.com/Authoring/SSI/Intro/include.html for a more detailed explanation of the above

Cheers...

[webtipzcom]

actually that depends on your hosting provider. some require to save your ssi in a cgi-bin,

rgds,
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[olaf777]

Thanks for that.

This kind of spills over though. If my SSI file to be included links to images/foo.gif that works fine on the home page. But not on the subdirectory pages. Then I need ../images/foo.gif

Is it possible to have universal links, or do I need a separate file to include?
And what does that root referencing stuff someone mentioned do? I thought about using a base tag, but that didn't help much.

[Hierophant]

Just use /images/foo if your images directory is located directly off your root web directory.