On Sunday, October 24, 2010 9:05 PM (UTC+13) Rosemary Probert wrote:- > Hi, > > I seem to have a really silly little problem with a new page. > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcbanb/war-memorials/adderbury/church-memorial.htm > > The SSI that I use at the bottom of the page is giving me an error > message [an error occurred while processing this directive]. > > There are dozens of pages that use this SSI and all appear to be working > fine ie. > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcbanb/war-memorials/adderbury/1914-1918-1.htm > > I've put the actual text onto a copy page and that works fine: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcbanb/war-memorials/adderbury/church-memorial-2.htm > > I've also validated both pages with W3C. > > I just can't see what's not working :-( > > Can anyone spot what's wrong? ********************************* Hi Rosemary, The problem we have in trying to deduce what may have happened is hampered by the fact that we cannot see how you have called the included text file. I suspect that there is a problem with the syntax you have used, e.g. the correct syntax is <!--#include file="myfile.txt" --> or <!--#include virtual="../myfile.txt" --> and the likely error is that you have no space after "myfile.txt" and -->. If the path is correct, and the file is identical to that used in the test page, then the problem must be with the #include syntax. Barry

Hi Barry, The syntax I'm using is <!--#include virtual="../../includes/war-memorials-footer.txt" --> I think this is right - it's the same as on the other pages as I make a template for the common parts of the page. The include file is here: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcbanb/includes/war-memorials-footer.txt It does work on pages such as this: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcbanb/war-memorials/adderbury/1914-1918-1.htm I just can't see what's different :-( Rosemary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On 24/10/2010 09:54, Barry Carlson wrote: > On Sunday, October 24, 2010 9:05 PM (UTC+13) > Rosemary Probert wrote:- > >> Hi, >> >> I seem to have a really silly little problem with a new page. >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcbanb/war-memorials/adderbury/church-memorial.htm >> >> >> The SSI that I use at the bottom of the page is giving me an error >> message [an error occurred while processing this directive]. >> >> There are dozens of pages that use this SSI and all appear to be working >> fine ie. >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcbanb/war-memorials/adderbury/1914-1918-1.htm >> >> >> I've put the actual text onto a copy page and that works fine: >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~engcbanb/war-memorials/adderbury/church-memorial-2.htm >> >> >> I've also validated both pages with W3C. >> >> I just can't see what's not working :-( >> >> Can anyone spot what's wrong? > ********************************* > Hi Rosemary, > > The problem we have in trying to deduce what may have happened is > hampered by the fact that we cannot see how you have called the included > text file. I suspect that there is a problem with the syntax you have > used, e.g. > > the correct syntax is <!--#include file="myfile.txt" --> or <!--#include > virtual="../myfile.txt" --> and the likely error is that you have no > space after "myfile.txt" and -->. > > If the path is correct, and the file is identical to that used in the > test page, then the problem must be with the #include syntax. > > Barry