Jim, You and my daughter are geniuses :-) I just spent an hour with her on Skype coming to the same conclusion on her advice and it works! I will just bookmark the new location and things will be cool. The other downside is that if I move elsewhere a global replace will need to be done to change the ~ctmanshs includes ... but there is software to do that. Thanks for thinking of this, George p.s. *she* should know since she solely owns a multi-million .com On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Jim Rickenbacker(3) <j3mr2@borisbrooks.com > wrote: > George, > > It is now clear. If <!--#include virtual="/~ctmanshs/00_ssi/banner.htm" --> > works on rootsweb that means that /~ctmanshs/ is your web root directory on > rootsweb. Your web root directory on IIS is simply /. That is why > <!--#include virtual="/00_ssi/banner.htm" --> works on IIS. The only way > you > can make a single include that will work on both systems is to create a > ~ctmanshs folder on your PC under wwwroot and put your entire website in > that folder. Then you can use <!--#include > virtual="/~ctmanshs/00_ssi/banner.htm" --> on both systems. The downside is > you will have to browse to: http://localhost/~ctmanshs/<http://localhost/%7Ectmanshs/>on your PC to view > your local site. > > This is not an Apache vs IIS issue but rather reflects how rootsweb > configures their servers to handle multiple websites as Pat Asher > indicated. > > Jim Rickenbacker > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "George Waller" <george.a.waller@gmail.com> > To: "RootsWeb-Help" <ROOTSWEB-HELP@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 5:06 PM > Subject: [ROOTSWEB-HELP] More on includes > > > > Hi all, > > Still not used to gmail so will start another thread on this subject. > > > > Thanks for all the advice. > > > > <!--#include virtual="/~ctmanshs/00_ssi/banner.htm" --> > > <!--#include virtual="../00_ssi/banner.htm" --> > > > > both work on my RootsWeb account between subdirectories. > > Does anyone use another variation which works between subdirectories? > > (I.e. my #include is within a file in a subdirectory) > > > > <!--#include virtual="/00_ssi/banner.htm" --> > > would be great but it doesn't work! > > > > Sorry to drag this out but it is important to my ability to develop my > > site. > > Have been struggling with this since 8:30AM. > > > > George > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >