Help with SSI, keep getting error message

julieanne · Joined: 10 Mar 2009 Posts: 6

Hi,
I am totally new to HTML and for a class I'm taking, we have to take simple webpages we've made on the school's server and use SSI's to make a left navigation on each of the pages we've made. I've tried so many different ways and every time I tri I get the message "[an error occurred while processing this directive]," i.e. a nice way of saying I don't know SSI Razz

The rest of my page renders fine, however. Through coding I was able to make a left navigation but, on two of my pages that are more design/css 'heavy', so to speak, the page renders completely off using the code I wrote for the left navigation. Can anyone help me out? Sad

The assignment said, as follows:
2. To add a server side include (ssi) to this file, you will first have to change its extension to .shtml so that file is parsed by the server before it is sent to the browser.

Now, in order to include another file within your .shtml file, you will have to use an ssi like this:



(Make sure the relative path is correct)

2. The structure of each of your existing webpages will need to be modified as follows:

.
<body>
<div class="left">

</div>

<div class="content">

</div>
</body>
</html>

3. Add a css file called common.css to the includes folder. Add to it the styles for left and content such that at the minimum:

the left div section has a width defined and floats from the left
the content div has at least a width and a left margin defined for it.
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Trying with SSI, my page renders like this:
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~web39/190-02/a2/a22.shtml
Trying with the code I wrote up, I get something like this:
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~web39/190-02/a2/a2.shtml
(if you click on the links to Assignments three and four on the latter link, you can see what I mean by the CSS/design heavy pages not rendering properly at all.
Any tips?
I hope this wasn't too long winded and/or confusing!

sticks464 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 2309

Make sure the file to include is in the includes folder and try it like this

julieanne · Joined: 10 Mar 2009 Posts: 6

Thanks but I'm still getting the same error...?
Is something maybe off with my navigation page?
The link to it is:
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~web39/190-02/includes/navigation.html
It's just a simple page with links. :\

sticks464 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 2309

Most likely it is the path to the included file. Your working files all should be inside a master folder. The master folder will contain the includes folder and the shtml file. The navigation.html file should be inside the includes folder.
The include command does not need any / in the path

julieanne · Joined: 10 Mar 2009 Posts: 6

Thank you!!! Smile

I finally got the left nav bar in place however, on my two CSS heavy pages it is totally shifting the layout, especially on my form page. Do you have any idea why?
e.g.

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~web39/190-02/a4/a4.shtml
and
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~web39/190-02/a3/sample.shtml

(ignore the lack of link buttons..I'm working on putting them in as I type this!!)