I am trying to use SSI to plug navigation code into every page of my website.  I can't seem to find the right path representation!

The file containing the code is called navigate.html.  The include works only if I place a copy of navigate.html in the same directory as every calling file, and call it with this code:

<!--#include file="navigate.html"-->

I would rather place navigate.html in my public_html directory and access it from files in various subdirectories.  However, when I try that, I get an error.

I have tried the following paths, but none work:

/navigate.html

../navigate.html   (called from one level down)

/home/myaccount/public_html/navigate.html

I even tried using the URL.  Nothing.

Anybody have an answer for me? Or any ideas?
Thanks for your help!
 
 [ November 26, 2002, 05:13 PM: Message edited by: DogPound ]

Hi Max,

I had searched the boards for "ssi paths" but didn't find a good solution -- I don't want to switch to PHP, and the paths that were offered in previous posts didn't work for me.  (I'm on Saturn, by the way.)

Nonetheless, I was able to resolve the problem by replacing
 
#include file=...

with

#include virtual= ...

It seems to work fine.  Unfortunately, I do not know if there are any effective or functional differences between the "virtual" and "file" parameters.  If you or anybody here knows how to determine which parameter should be used and why, please tell me.

Thank you!