Topic awaiting preservation: ARGH! Why are my includes not working?

http://www.patricdesign.com/index.asp

There should be a navigation bar (well 2 buttons) on the top right. The include doesn't work on my local server and it doesnt work on my web server. On another site i designed it works both locally and on any remote server i tried. I've even tried to copy/paste code, change doctype, code lang, file ending (asp, htm, html) changed the include file ending (txt, asp, htm, html) but no luck.

HELP!

<´¯`·.¸ Patric ¸.·´¯`>

patric design: I suspect the include is working (or you'd get some big nasty error messages all over your page) but I suspect what is going on inside your include isn't working. However, I suspect you will need to copy and paste your code in here (just the bit that includes the file and the contents of the include file) as it is a bit tricky working out what is happening as it just appears to do nothing rather than it breaking and giving us error messages.

You aren't using an include inside and include are you? That can cause problems.

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Emps

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include part in index.asp

<div id="navbar" class="row"> <span class="left"><a href="index.asp"><img src="images/delmehome.gif" alt="click to go back to the main page" name="home" width="65" height="22" border="0" id="home" /></a></span> 

    <span class="right">

    <!-- #Include file="navi.txt" -->

    </span> </div>

and the include itself (navi.txt)

<a href="javascript:;" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('clients','','images/mnclients_f2.gif',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img src="images/mnclients.gif" alt="clients" name="clients" width="66" height="17" border="0" id="clients"></a> 

<a href="javascript:;" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('contact','','images/mncontact_f2.gif',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img src="images/mncontact.gif" alt="contact" name="contact" width="66" height="17" border="0" id="contact" /></a>

also i added a few SSis just to test them and they don't show up either

<!--#echo var="LAST_MODIFIED"-->

Thanx in advance
Patric

<´¯`·.¸ Patric ¸.·´¯`>

Web server that's hosting www.patricdesign.com doesn't support ASP. I've just checked that domain, and saw that it is running under Apache/1.3.26 (Unix). Therefore, you *can't* use ASP on that server...

You can probably use SSI, but you'll have to change file extension to ".shtml" (but, this can also depend on server configuration).

that is not entirely true... you can get modules for apache to run ASP....

Rahly

Damn, looks like i am chnaging provider again. They've deleted the ASP support on my hosting package. Bastards!
Thanx for pointing that out Max.

I got the SSI's working with the SHTML ending, but the include for the two buttons still doesn't work.
What is wrong with that?

<´¯`·.¸ Patric ¸.·´¯`>

Rahly, although there are modules like Apache::ASP which can add ASP support to Apache web server, that's not the real Microsoft ASP. You can't use VBScript language (which is default language for ASP). Also, most web hosts don't have it installed, because they don't need it (and why should they even install it when there is PHP and other open source alternatives) and you usually can't add it by yourself (especially if web site is runnning on a shared server)...

Patric, loose the space between "<!--" and "#include" part...




[This message has been edited by mr.maX (edited 07-06-2002).]

Actually... i've seen a module for server side VBScript for apache around somewhere.... open source I think.... i'll have to see if i can find a link... but i don't know how much of the code is supported yet....

Rahly

lol.

The other issue being can you imagine the coniption fit a Unix admin would throw when you told him to complie Apache with ASP support?





.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

considering i've done it in 15 mins?.... i think it would be a 2 week fit.....

Rahly

actually, I don't remember quite how it goes, but use can use .htaccess to parse .html files for includes...


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