Not sure if this is the right group, so if anyone has a better
suggestion please let me know.

I run Apache 2.x under Win2K for development, but host on a *nix box.

Currently I have a set of pages that uses SSI include virtual commands
to embed common content into all the pages. I have a navigation panel
that I want to behave a certain way. When that particular page is being
viewed, I want to change the text link to a different style, as a visual
clue what page is being viewed.

This works perfectly on my system at home, but when uploaded to my host,
I get an error for the external file that is being called in. I have no
idea why it would work at home and not on my host. As far as I can see
I'm using XSSI commands but the host server should be able to handle
them, it is 1.3.34. All other included files work fine.

Here is an example of what the external file does:

<!--#if expr = "'$DOCUMENT_NAME' = 'contact.shtml'"-->
<div style="line-height:2">Contact Us</div>
<!--#else-->
<div style="line-height:2"><a href="contact.shtml">Contact
Us</a></div>
<!--#endif -->

What happens is, when each page is loaded, it spits out an error "[an
error occurred while processing this directive]". Visit
http://www.softouch.on.ca/ssi/index.shtml to see what I mean.

If anyone has a clue why this might be happening I would appreciate some
ideas.
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[ Amer Neely ]

> What happens is, when each page is loaded, it spits out an error "[an
> error occurred while processing this directive]". Visit
> http://www.softouch.on.ca/ssi/index.shtml to see what I mean.
>
> If anyone has a clue why this might be happening I would appreciate
> some ideas.

A more verbose error-message should be written to your Apache-servers
error_log. You could you post the relevant entries here if they don't
you along towards enlightenment.


Rgds,
Kenneth Svee

[ Amer Neely ]

> What happens is, when each page is loaded, it spits out an error "[an
> error occurred while processing this directive]". Visit
> http://www.softouch.on.ca/ssi/index.shtml to see what I mean.
>
> If anyone has a clue why this might be happening I would appreciate
> some ideas.

A more verbose error-message should be written to your Apache-servers
error_log. You could you post the relevant entries here if they don't
you along towards enlightenment.


Rgds,
Kenneth Svee

Kenneth Svee wrote:
> [ Amer Neely ]
>
>> What happens is, when each page is loaded, it spits out an error "[an
>> error occurred while processing this directive]". Visit
>> http://www.softouch.on.ca/ssi/index.shtml to see what I mean.
>>
>> If anyone has a clue why this might be happening I would appreciate
>> some ideas.
>
> A more verbose error-message should be written to your Apache-servers
> error_log. You could you post the relevant entries here if they don't
> you along towards enlightenment.
>
>
> Rgds,
> Kenneth Svee
>

Good idea. But here's all I found:
[Mon Apr 24 09:23:16 2006] [error] [client 24.235.191.210] unknown
directive "else-->" in parsed doc
/home/softouch/public_html/ssi/xssi-navigation.shtml

The file in question has a chain of 'if-else-endif' directives. And they
all have '<--#' with no space between the octothorpe and command, and
they're all spelled correctly.

Which got me thinking. I checked my code and there was NO space between
the command and the trailing '-->', just as the error indicates. Once
that was added everything worked fine. So there's one finicky difference
to remember about Windoze and Unix SSI.

Thanks for pointing in the right direction

Now the site below works as it should (at least the navigation panel).

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Kenneth Svee wrote:
> [ Amer Neely ]
>
>> What happens is, when each page is loaded, it spits out an error "[an
>> error occurred while processing this directive]". Visit
>> http://www.softouch.on.ca/ssi/index.shtml to see what I mean.
>>
>> If anyone has a clue why this might be happening I would appreciate
>> some ideas.
>
> A more verbose error-message should be written to your Apache-servers
> error_log. You could you post the relevant entries here if they don't
> you along towards enlightenment.
>
>
> Rgds,
> Kenneth Svee
>

Good idea. But here's all I found:
[Mon Apr 24 09:23:16 2006] [error] [client 24.235.191.210] unknown
directive "else-->" in parsed doc
/home/softouch/public_html/ssi/xssi-navigation.shtml

The file in question has a chain of 'if-else-endif' directives. And they
all have '<--#' with no space between the octothorpe and command, and
they're all spelled correctly.

Which got me thinking. I checked my code and there was NO space between
the command and the trailing '-->', just as the error indicates. Once
that was added everything worked fine. So there's one finicky difference
to remember about Windoze and Unix SSI.

Thanks for pointing in the right direction

Now the site below works as it should (at least the navigation panel).

--
Amer Neely
Home of Spam Catcher
W: www.softouch.on.ca
E: trudge@softouch.on.ca
Perl | MySQL | CGI programming for all data entry forms.
"We make web sites work!"

* Amer Neely <softouch@softouch.on.ca> wrote:

> Which got me thinking. I checked my code and there was NO space between
> the command and the trailing '-->', just as the error indicates. Once
> that was added everything worked fine. So there's one finicky difference
> to remember about Windoze and Unix SSI.

Nope. That's between 1.3 and 2.x. 2.x has a completely different (and more
lenient) parser.

nd

* Amer Neely <softouch@softouch.on.ca> wrote:

> Which got me thinking. I checked my code and there was NO space between
> the command and the trailing '-->', just as the error indicates. Once
> that was added everything worked fine. So there's one finicky difference
> to remember about Windoze and Unix SSI.

Nope. That's between 1.3 and 2.x. 2.x has a completely different (and more
lenient) parser.

nd

André Malo wrote:
> * Amer Neely <softouch@softouch.on.ca> wrote:
>
>> Which got me thinking. I checked my code and there was NO space between
>> the command and the trailing '-->', just as the error indicates. Once
>> that was added everything worked fine. So there's one finicky difference
>> to remember about Windoze and Unix SSI.
>
> Nope. That's between 1.3 and 2.x. 2.x has a completely different (and more
> lenient) parser.
>
> nd

Ah, so that's it. Good to know. Thanks for the clarification.

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André Malo wrote:
> * Amer Neely <softouch@softouch.on.ca> wrote:
>
>> Which got me thinking. I checked my code and there was NO space between
>> the command and the trailing '-->', just as the error indicates. Once
>> that was added everything worked fine. So there's one finicky difference
>> to remember about Windoze and Unix SSI.
>
> Nope. That's between 1.3 and 2.x. 2.x has a completely different (and more
> lenient) parser.
>
> nd

Ah, so that's it. Good to know. Thanks for the clarification.

--
Amer Neely
Home of Spam Catcher
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E: trudge@softouch.on.ca
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