Ssi Assistance

[Xantith]

Hello,

 

I had covered this issue on these forums about 6 monts ago. After a long vacation from web publishing, I went back to the post I made previously to address my SSI problems. After scouring the topic over and over, I just cannot get my SSI to function. I was sure whether I should continue the original post so I decided to start fresh and see if I can finally get this to work.

 

Currently my problem is this: i am using Ikonboard for my web forums and I want to use the News feature, but for the life of me I cant get it to display. I am using dreamweaver for page creation and have tried doing this with an html page as well as a fresh php page to no avail. I insert <!--#include virtual="/exocet/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/ssi/newsdata.txt" --> (exocet is a subdomain) and the tables show up in design view within Dreamweaver. I then upload the file as index.html and when I try to view it it shows up as blank. I have used the same procedure after creating a new php page and uploaded that as index.php with no results as well.

 

I have checked my .htaccess files and in each directory this is what they read:

 

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .htm .html .shtml

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes

AddType application/x-httpd-CGI .CGI

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .shtml

 

I added the line AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .htm .html .shtml to the top line of my .htaccess file as directed in my previous post and I still cant get the darn thing to work.

 

I had a full head of hair when I first attempted to accomplish this task and now I fear I may have to run out and buy some Rogaine if this problem persists. I was hoping that some kind soul could walk me thru this to finally get my news info on my homepage.

 

Thanks for your patience.

 

Edit:

 

Concerning my .htaccess file, I found these instructions from the ikonboard forums, but when I tried that I got all kinds of errors and couldnt even access my index page:

 

Place this where you want the news to appear on your page

Code Sample

<!--#include virtual="http://exocet.digitalpalatte.com/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/ssi/newsdata.txt" -->

 

"The HTML file that must be renamed to end with SHTML and you need to modify your .htaccess file in your root dir as well. This is mine, for example:

 

Code Sample

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .shtml

AddType text/html .shtml

AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html "

Edited October 26, 2005 by Xantith

[TweezerMan]

With the .htaccess file as you currently have it, you're trying to get the server to parse an .html page twice - once for PHP and once for SSI, and I believe the server will only parse a file once. From the Apache server documentation:

Care should be taken when a file with multiple extensions gets associated with both a MIME-type and a handler. This will usually result in the request being by the module associated with the handler.

Since .html files are associated with PHP as the handler (SSI is associated as a MIME-type), PHP will get to parse the .html page and it will not be parsed for SSI.

 

If a page is being parsed by PHP, you don't really need to use SSI as PHP has equivalent commands built into it. For example, instead of this SSI command:

><!--#include virtual="http://exocet.digitalpalatte.com/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/ssi/newsdata.txt" -->

...you can use this PHP command instead:

><?php include 'http://exocet.digitalpalatte.com/ikonboard/iB_html/non-cgi/ssi/newsdata.txt'; ?>

Hope this helps...