I'm using SSI for the first time on my site and I have a question.

I have:

<!--#include virtual="sidemenu.shtml"-->

on all my pages for the sidemenu bar that is the same on all pages.

In sidemenu.shtml it has all sorts of links like "australia/index.shtml" but say if you're in the newzealand/index.shtml" directory it doesn't find australia/index.shtml as it would be "../australia/index.shtml". What do I do?

With SSI are you supposed to use absolute pathnames instead of relative pathnames?

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If the newzealand/australia directories are off your root add a / to the beginning of the path like "/australia/index.shtml"

Thanks for the quick response

It didn't solve my problem though by adding "/australia/index.shtml" into sidemenu.shtml. Once I load index.shtml off my main directory it points to a directory beneath my main directory. Any further ideas?



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Sorry Im confused.

Could you paste the path you want and the path that is currently being inserted?

Yeah sure.

Just to explain what I'm doing further. I'm wanting to use SSI for my sidemenu bar as I don't want to have to change all 50 or so documents when I have a change to make to it. The directory stucture is like this:

design
- australia(dir)
- images(dir)
- newzealand(dir)
- index.shtml
- sidemenu.shtml

In sidemenu.shtml I have all my links for the sidemenu bar, i.e. australia/index.shtml, etc.

The problem is that when I'm viewing australia/index.shtml for example the link in sidemenu.shtml doesn't work for any other pages as they are newzealand/index.shtml and not ../newzealand/index.shtml. I can't change it to that in sidemenu.shtml though as if you're viewing index.shtml the link should be newzealand/index.shtml.

Do you understand what my problem is now? Thanks for your help

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Yeah I think so :)

My original suggestion would work - I just didn't know the directory structure.

Try using:

/design/australia/index.html

ie... put /design/ infront of the country

Im assuming design is the directory in which all the others files/dirs are?

It still isn't working

I'll send you a private message with a link to the site... Hope you don't mind...

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Any ideas Paul/anyone?

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Looks as though I'm going to have to use full path names (absolute).

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Yep, that's what you should do. All your links should be relative from your root directory.

That way they are guaranteed to work at any level in your directory structure.

So if your site is http://www.website.com/homepage/cool/index.htm, all the links should point to /homepage/cool/whatever...

My gosh that's a horrible example...

- Mark

Astro-Boy!!
http://www.zip.com.au/~astroboy/

Did I not mention that twice already

Ahh I figured out what I doing wrong.

My address is http://server5.hypermart.net/philipclark/site/ and I was adding /site/test/ which wasn't working but once I added /philipclark to /site/test/ it started working (/philipclark/site/test/).

Thanks guys

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