Includes driving me nuts, please help

Hi,

I have set up a server side include on http://www.oohoi.com/index.htm as:

<!--#include virtual="headerfile.htm"-->

and the headerfile.htm is in the same directory as the index.htm. But, the include does not work. I contacted hosting support and they say that it should work (and that they do not offer any scripting support ) I tried changing permissions to headerfile.htm and allowed ALL access (777), but that does not work either (currently reset to 644).

Am pulling my hair out. Help appreciated.

Thanks
Ajeet

 

normaly when you do a ssi include you need to name the file xyz.shtml not .htm if you name it .htm and still use ssi then add this to your htdocs.

AddType text/html .shtml .html .htm
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .html .htm
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes

follow this link for info
http://www.htmlite.com/HTA007.php

 

Right now the server thinks it's a html comment.

If your using .ASP I think the file extensions need to be .asp OR there should be a way to tell the server to process .htm as .asp but I'm not a server geek

EDIT: what Softbrix said

 

I may be wrong here but at a glance I'd say your code should read:
<!-- #include virtual="headerfile.htm" -->

Note the spacing between "--" and "#"

 

Testing all replies right now. Will be back.

 

Hi,

It did not work. I am now including a .shtml file (and the .shtml file is present in the same directory). I even tried playing with the spaces, but no permutation seems to work.

Any further thoughts will be appreciated.

Thanks
Ajeet

 

If I'm in a regualr .html doc I have the following code:

<?php
include ('nav-top.php');
?>

Code (markup):

and in this file is normal .html code

in my .htaccess (to ensure the includes works) I have

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

Code (markup):

This has helped on many sites I run

 

The other way around - there can be no space there. Some environments can handle both forms (e.g. ASP), but Apache v2 works only if there's no space.

J.D.

 

This worked. Thanks a gazillion

Quick query: This method of including links is SEO friendly, right?