Can't do include from sub-folder.?

Buffmin · 03-15-2012, 09:27 PM

I have a normal shtml file.
I use
 on my index page to include my footer.

I have a page in in a sub-folder and would also like to include that footer,but when I do

It does not get included on the sub page. Not sure why?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Buffmin

dan-dan · 03-15-2012, 09:40 PM

Are you sure it's just 'one' folder in the way eg: root/folder/folder/file.shtml

Does it work using the absolute path?

Buffmin · 03-15-2012, 09:48 PM

Yes, it is definitely one folder down. Not sure how to set the absolute path. You mean using the url?

I did try the 

No help.

I see thatb there is aome kind of trick to using includes from sub-folders (but I don't know it!)

dan-dan · 03-15-2012, 09:53 PM

Does it work with http://www.yoursite.com/footer.shtml?

dan-dan · 03-15-2012, 10:03 PM

Is the page in which your trying to include the file a HTML or SHTML?

Buffmin · 03-15-2012, 10:09 PM

Both are shtml

I used the same  that I used in the index.shtml file. When it didn't work, I added the ../ and still didn't work. And it is definitely only 1 folder level down.

dan-dan · 03-15-2012, 10:34 PM

I've heard of problems between html and shtml and needing to add to htaccess. Otherwise I don't know.

Buffmin · 03-15-2012, 10:35 PM

Sorry, all are shtml

I tried it again with a new page. I find that if you include a say.... footer.shtml page and in the same folder, you create a page that has nothing but an include to that page it works fine. (using  )

BUT if you copy that same page to a sub folder, it will no longer include the footer code, even if you add the ../ before the footer.shtml

I just get an error .... [an error occurred while processing this directive]

I don't get it.?

Fou-Lu · 03-15-2012, 11:13 PM

SSI is a server directive. Hmmm, I think I'll move this to the other server side languages forum.

Don't bother with tracking your filepaths. The directive is html root based, just use /footer.shtml if its served off of the root.

Buffmin · 03-15-2012, 11:23 PM

I tried 
Still no good.

Fou-Lu · 03-15-2012, 11:27 PM

Does that include line show up in the comments if you view the source of the page?

Edit:
Wait, change that from file= to virtual=. Does that work?
On a side note, its been yeeeeeaaaaarrrrrssss since I've used an SSI directive. Is there a reason why you are using this instead of a processing language like PHP?

Buffmin · 03-15-2012, 11:37 PM

No it doesn't.
You can see the page at http://cert.cnjwebsolutions.com/garb/junk.shtml

When I view source, below is what I get. (The only thing I put on the page is the footer include)
AND, below that is the original code from my page)

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
 
<body>
 
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
</body>
</html>

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>

<!--#include file="../footer.shtml" -->
</body>
</html>

Buffmin · 03-15-2012, 11:47 PM

Got it.
I finally found this in another forum

rather than use 

Change it to this 

and here is the explanation exact from the forum.

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What you have should work fine, basically. Because it does not work, something else is wrong.

any path that starts with a slash means, "Start at the DocumentRoot" -- as defined in the server configuration. So if /inc/example-page.shtml is referenced in an include, but resolves to <DocumentRoot>/sub-folder/inc/example-page.shtml instead of <DocumentRoot>/inc/example-page.shtml, then either your server configuration is faulty, or it is simply not configured the way that you think it is... That is why I asked about the "Control Panel add-ons" above.

[added] Here is the code I use to include a footer on all pages of one of my sites, regardless of what subdirectory the page's file might be located in:

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Thank you all !!
Working fine now. Cheers.

Fou-Lu · 03-16-2012, 12:06 AM

Right, so... exactly what I suggested

Buffmin · 03-16-2012, 12:49 AM

Wow Fou-Lu.

My apologies. I guess my eyes skimmed over that, thinking it was just one of those tid-bit (phrases) that people seem to include in their threads.

Yes, that is exactly what you suggested.

The other thing that you asked was, why am I not using a processing language like php.

Hmmm, as I am fairly new in this business, I have always had the impression that you should create sites as html unless you are going to include php code, at which time, I would save them as .php.

That has always been a question of mine. If php pages will work fine even if they do not contain php code, then why not just always save pages as php?

I mean, I have a tendancy of creating half a website, and then the client wants a page that will require php. Then, rather than having 10 html pages and '1' php page, I go back and save the other pages as php.?

I would appreciate your thoughts. Thanks again, Buffmin