Preserved Topic: Named Anchors in .shtml

I'm using some SSI in something that I'm working on, hence .shtml. Now, I'm also using some named anchors. They don't seem to get along on my local machine. If I change the files to .html and edit the anchors, local machine previews fine. Otherwise I get 404 when I try to link to index.shtml#whatever.

Is this an OS feature? A Win 98SE thang?

I guess what I would like to know is if you folks running something other than Win 98SE have the same feature. Or if some of you Win 98SE users *don't* have this feature.

Just curious.

That's by design. You have to run web server on your computer if you want to test SSI locally.

Take a look at the FoxServ for Apache/PHP/MySQL bundle...

"...get 404 when I try to link to index.shtml#whatever."

I can't use named anchors on my local machine in a SHTML doc. That's what I'm asking about.

Do you have a web server running on your machine? If you're opening shtml files using File/Open, then anchors won't work...

Nope. Not running server. As a matter of fact, there is no SSI yet in the SHMTL docs that I am working on.

Named anchors in an .HTML doc works fine locally.

Now, <a href="some.shtml"> links just fine locally, but <a href="some.shtml#noway"> doesn't. I've been through the code many times looking for a simple syntax error, but nothing. When I change the extension to HTML in the file name and in the anchor, it works fine.

Strange annoying little foible I've got here. Maybe it's time to re-format and try again. Or run a local server, but that's something I've been trying to avoid. Ah, well.



[This message has been edited by warjournal (edited 07-07-2001).]

As I've said, that's by design (it's the same on every other Windows installation). You can't call named anchors in SHTML files locally, you *must* have web server running locally in order to do that...

BTW We already had discussion about this here: http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/000164.html

Here I thougth I wasn't getting through to you and it turns out you weren't getting through to me.

Named anchors not working in a SHMTL doesn't make sense to me. Why would they design it that way? After all, regular HREF.SHTML works fine to and from SHTML, why not HREF.SHTML#?

:sigh:

Thanks, Max. I'm going back to the salt mine.


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