Hi, On the several templates for the pages I want to include some text using SSI. It works great on the the index.html page where I just use include virtual="cgi-bin/xxxxxx" but it doesn't work on pages in subdirectories...

I tried including the build_root_url var. in the SSI statement but this doesn't work....

Can someone help me out? Thanks....

It doesn't work in subdirectories, because the path is different (remember, the subcategory index pages are one directory level deeper then their predecessor).

Meaning:

a category can use /cgi-bin/prog.cgi
but a subcat may need ../cgi-bin/prog.cgi.

What you should do is try with the entire absolute path, not a relative one, and see if that works.

--mark

Thanks for the reply Mark,

That is indeed what the problem is. It only becomes quite difficult to insert a lot (of long) SSI code into all of the templates where the only thing that needs to change is only 8 characters long.

I am configuring links and trying it on a local linux box and want to upload it to my isp when it is completely configured. However, locally I use the address 10.0.0.20 and I hate to have to change it in all of the templates.

This is how I am handling it right now....
(or trying to)
I want to add 2 new tags :
<%bam0%> and <%bam1%>
0 as SSI opener and 1 as SSI ender

This way I could enter code like this into the templates :
<%bam0%>front<%bam1%>

bam0 would be ´ <!--#virtual include="http://local/cgi-bin/bm.cgi?group=" ´
bam1 would be ´ "--> ´

This would generate the following :
<!--#virtual include="http://local/cgi-bin/bm.cgi?group="front"--> and would fix the problem... I am only starting in Perl and have succesfully completed some code.

At this moment I have the following defined in links.cfg

$bam0 = "\<\!--\#include virtual=\"http://local/cgi-bin/bm.cgi\?group="

$bam1 = "\"--\>"

I want this to become a tag however instead of a variable... Can anyone tell me how I can do this?

Thanks in advance

Hi all, we're a little bit closer to the solution... This is what I have at the moment....

In the links.cfg I have put these values :

$bam0 = "\<\!--\#include virtual\=\"http://10.0.0.20/cgi-bin/bm.cgi\?group\=";
$bam1 = "\"--\>";


In site_html_templates.pl I have this :

%globals = (
bam0 => $bam0,
bam1 => $bam1,
date => &get_date,
time => &get_time,
db_cgi_url => $db_cgi_url,
build_root_url => $build_root_url,
site_title => $build_site_title,
css => $build_css_url,
banner => ''
);

All seems to get through fine, except for the fact that I get a [an error occurred while processing this directive] on my pages.

I think we're pretty close now... Can anyone round this up ?

Frustrated with the SSI directives I replaced the absolute path to a relative path. Of course it works on the homepage but not on the subdirectoried pages, which is the aim of the whole endeavour....

Is there a way to get the absolute path to work or is there a way to build 'on-the-fly' relative paths (../../../..) based on some additional code to be included in links ?