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Poriblems with Server Side Include

Sep 1, 2012 2:00 PM

Tags: #php #ssi

I amtrying to convert to Spry Menus using SSI. into a template.  been beating my head against the wall on what can go in and what can't in an include fil but that turns out not be my big problem

 

 

when in using Dredamweaver CS5   and  do a server side I have major issues at the differeent levels

 

i have the file in a directory off the site root called  Includes

 

the file i am trying to include

 

using a page at the root level my statement using document relation is

 

<!--#include file="Includes/Navbar.html" -->

 

works fine   channg to site relation does not work   Ok so far so good

 

however a page in a lower level director gets the dreaded

 

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

 

and i get an error

 

[

[Sat Sep 01 16:51:42 2012] [error] [client 174.57.220.98] unable to include file "../Includes/Navbar.html" in parsed file /usr/local/www/kasdivi.com/blog/beachguide.html

 

and also

 

Warning - PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20100525-debug/memcache.so' - Cannot open &quot;/usr/local/lib/php/20100525-debug/memcache.so&quot;

Unknown(0) : Warning - PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20100525-debug/apc.so' - Cannot open &quot;/usr/local/lib/php/20100525-debug/apc.so&quot;

Unknown(0) : Warning - PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20100525-debug/pdf.so' - Cannot open &quot;/usr/local/lib/php/20100525-debug/pdf.so&quot;

Unknown(0) : Warning - PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20100525-debug/memcache.so' - Cannot open &quot;/usr/local/lib/php/20100525-debug/memcache.so&quot;

Unknown(0) : Warning - PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20100525-debug/apc.so' - Cannot open &quot;/usr/local/lib/php/20100525-debug/apc.so&quot;

Unknown(0) : Warning - PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20100525-debug/pdf.so' - Cannot open &quot;/usr/local/lib/php/20100525-debug/pdf.so&quot;

 

 

 

the php errors don't seem mahor although they seem to have i have another iisue or are the related

 

but that aside

 

If I move the include file to the same level as the pade with approprirate include statement no problem it works

 

if i move it to a subditrectory  then it doesn't work

 

 

summary

 

i can get SSI to work for page on the root level using Includes from a subdirectory

 

but on other level I must have the include in the same directory with the page

 

any thoughts??

2415 Views   19 Replies   Latest reply: captcurrent, Oct 21, 2012 3:36 PM
 
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  • Nancy O.
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    1. Nancy O.,
    Sep 1, 2012 2:32 PM   in reply to captcurrent
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    Your menu links are inside an include file.  There should be nothing else inside that file except the list tags, classes & hyperlinks.  Links are relative to the parent page(s) in which they will occur.

     

    All supporting scripts and CSS go inside the parent page -- in your case, the Template.dwt file.

     

    Local Files Panel:

         -Includes

              menu.html

              footer.html

         +Styles

         +SpryAssets

         -Templates

              main.dwt

         about.shtml

         contact.shtml

         index.shtml

         services.shtml

     

    Problems will occur if you use document relative link paths with pages that are located inside sub and sub-sub folders. Obviously, you want to avoid doing that.  For best results, keep all your site pages at root level.

     

    Hope this helps,

     

    Nancy O.

     
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  • captcurrent
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    2. captcurrent,
    Sep 1, 2012 3:30 PM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    Unfortunatelu I am try to use a standard meny across hmmm 100+  pages

     

    with a structure like thus

    Library

    Images

         Movies

              Year

                  Location

                     Type

        Gallaries

              Year

                  Location

                     Type

    Links

    Pages   

              Year

                  Location

                     Type

     

     

    guess ssi is not my solution

     
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  • Nancy O.
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    3. Nancy O.,
    Sep 1, 2012 3:39 PM   in reply to captcurrent
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    You can still use SSIs.  Read this Help article.

    Absolute, document-relative, and site root-relative paths

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/using/WScbb6b82af5544594822 510a94ae8d65-7c44a.html

     

     

     

    Nancy O.

     
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  • captcurrent
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    4. captcurrent,
    Sep 1, 2012 4:09 PM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    I feel a little embarrassed forgetting about absolute.  Let me see how that works...

     

    I had maintained the execution script ion in the include based on an adobe tutorial

     
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  • captcurrent
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    Sep 1, 2012 6:05 PM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    that article gave me the start

     

    this

    http://www.interactivetools.com/docs/articlemanager2/templates/ssi.htm l

     

    gave me the final touches

     

    many thanks

     
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  • MurraySummers
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    6. MurraySummers,
    Sep 2, 2012 4:49 AM   in reply to captcurrent
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    Root relative will work just fine.  No need to use absolute....

     
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  • captcurrent
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    Sep 2, 2012 5:05 AM   in reply to MurraySummers
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    Root relative did not work for me   ,, that is why I posted  the absolutes with the modifications set forth in the above article has the ssi working fine

     
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  • MurraySummers
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    Sep 2, 2012 5:26 AM   in reply to captcurrent
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    If they didn't work, then you must not have implemented them properly.  They do work, and they will work in this circumstance.  The reason one would want to use root relative links rather than absolute links is that DW can manage the former, but not the latter, so if you ever change a file name or move a file within DW I believe that there will be problems with absolute links (although I haven't tested this).

     
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  • captcurrent
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    9. captcurrent,
    Sep 2, 2012 5:35 AM   in reply to MurraySummers
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    I agree that Dreamweaver can't manage the absolutes..     but I am unable to see where my implementation was faulty...

     
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  • MurraySummers
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    Sep 2, 2012 5:36 AM   in reply to captcurrent
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    Can you show what you tried that did not work?

     
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  • captcurrent
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    11. captcurrent,
    Sep 2, 2012 7:04 AM   in reply to MurraySummers
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    here are three top level examples

     

    http://kasdivi.com/absolute.html  works

     

    http://kasdivi.com/sitebasedlink.html    does not work

     

    http://kasdivi.com/pagebasedlink.html  works top level  doesn't  work down the ladder

     

    http://kasdivi.com/blog/pagebasedlink.html

     
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  • MurraySummers
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    Sep 2, 2012 7:20 AM   in reply to captcurrent
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    Of course, when a link to an include file works, then I cannot see what the link looks like.  When it does not work, it's replaced by an error message, and once again, I cannot see what the link looks like -

     

    <div id= "nav">

    [an error occurred while processing this directive]

    </div>

     

    But I see what the problem is.  You are making the link to the include file root relative.  That's not the right approach.  Make that link document relative.  DW will manage those links just fine.  It's the links WITHIN the file being included that must be root relative.  So -

     

    your second file linked above should have this -

     

    <div id= "nav">

    <!--#include file="Includes/Navbar.html" -->

    </div>

     

    (I'm assuming you have set your server to parse all document extensions so that the include directives are found and executed)

     

    ALL of the links within the files being included should be root relative (I can see that MOST but not all of them are).

     
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  • captcurrent
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    Sep 2, 2012 9:00 AM   in reply to MurraySummers
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    ok apparently the issues fall baclk to my FTP user id   I need to create an ID that  taes me to the saem "server root"   as Dreamweaver uses.. The issue is apparently that i must curently specify  /usr/local/www/kasdivi.com    to get to site root...  dreamweaver wants to start with /..     when i hand code yor uggestion it works

     
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  • MurraySummers
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    Sep 2, 2012 9:05 AM   in reply to captcurrent
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    Your site definition for the Remote site must be adjusted to show kasdivi.com as the root folder.

     
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  • captcurrent
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    Sep 2, 2012 9:18 AM   in reply to MurraySummers
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    I understand that from a dreamweaver perspective....  this requires a change to the ftp access which I have to  think out and see how it impacts other fun stuff like permissiosn and the like  thanks again  for pointing out my oversite

     
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  • MurraySummers
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    Sep 2, 2012 10:19 AM   in reply to captcurrent
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    This change should have no impact on those other attributes.

     
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  • captcurrent
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    Sep 2, 2012 10:29 AM   in reply to MurraySummers
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    the change to dreamweaver will not but to make such a change I must change the nature of the user  I imagine a simple change in so far as the home dir will suffice and would be best compromise

     
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  • captcurrent
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    Sep 2, 2012 1:22 PM   in reply to captcurrent
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    ok in playing with DW.. i changed the site root to the actual server site bath and changed the url to the url

     

    i can ftp happily witj out messing with the users

     

    the codee it generates is

     

    <!--#include virtual="/Includes/Navbar.html" -->

     

    which is the same as I found in the article above.. the advantage is I am not handcoding it

     

    now tod eal with some buys the spry 2.o menu process and life will be what it was before i tried to fix what wasn't broken

     
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  • captcurrent
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    Oct 21, 2012 3:36 PM   in reply to captcurrent
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    OK I am back and hopefully with better spelling

     

    I am having thee sane issue It may be because i have shifted machines

     

    Remote sute on DW CS 5 is set to kasdivi.com

     

    http://www.kasdivi.com/newtest.html

     

    is my base test file

     

    when i copy it down the tree

     

    using Murrays recommended <!--#include file="Includes/Navbar.html" -->

     

    I get this

     

    http://www.kasdivi.com/pages/Bonaire/2012/newtest.html

     

    I can not get absolute paths to work at all

     

    The host server is configued the same ...  the only thing that might have changed is DW configuration

     
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