> If your account is on the Freepages server, the problem with using > "/" to indicate root, is that you don't have access to the root > directory. The configuration on that server uses internal redirects > so you can have multiple URLs in one account. I've never tried this, but perhaps this would be a good use for the BASE tag: <http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_base.asp> If you define the top of your account as the root directory for your site, maybe some of what you're trying will work. If you ever moved to your own domain, you could just take that line out of your code. -- Bob Sullivan Schenectady Digital History Archive <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/> Schenectady County (NY) Public Library

OK I still don't understand gmail and how to reply but here goes... Pat suggested that <!--#include virtual="_includes/new-left-menu.txt" --> and Glenn said the same: <!--#include virtual="includes/footer0b.htm"--> file in public_html should work. But, I tried using (in my case) <!--#include virtual="00_ssi/banner.htm"--> file in public_html and it didn't work on RW... again I am not freepages. I became so frustrated that I downloaded two versions of Apache on Windows and quickly deinstalled them (hopefully) after it became evident I was not up to handling them. Bob, your suggestion about the base tag was interesting but since I will have some 400 pages to complete am afraid of going in that direction. Friends, I have given up! Thanks for your efforts. George p.s. the good news is that I can make my pages work for RW using #include virtual="../etc/etc" which is SO odd since virtual should return me to the root directory so the ".." must be ignored by Apache. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Robert Sullivan < robert.g.sullivan@gmail.com> wrote: > > If your account is on the Freepages server, the problem with using > > "/" to indicate root, is that you don't have access to the root > > directory. The configuration on that server uses internal redirects > > so you can have multiple URLs in one account. > > I've never tried this, but perhaps this would be a good use for the BASE > tag: > > <http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_base.asp> > > If you define the top of your account as the root directory for your > site, maybe some of what you're trying will work. If you ever moved > to your own domain, you could just take that line out of your code. > > -- > Bob Sullivan > Schenectady Digital History Archive > <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/> > Schenectady County (NY) Public Library > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSWEB-HELP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >