Inserting SSI scripts in SHTML pages 3

[JennyW]

Hi,

I have a perl script that dynamically places a Poll on an html page, but I can’t seem to get it working.

I uploaded, chmod’ed and made internal adjustments to all the files to related to the script. I followed every step specified in the readme file (I obviously went wrong somewhere, but I’ll get to that).

Here’s my poll’s url…

http://jennyw3.netfirms.com/cgi-bin/poll_it_ssi.cgi

In order to dynamically put this poll on a webpage the readme script directed me to perform the following…

README[tt]
The filename packaged w/ this script named 'poll_it_ssi.cgi' is the CGI Script used w/ SSI (Server Side Includes) to import your poll on an existing web page.

To use SSI within HTML files, most servers require your web page name to have an *.shtml extension rather than *.html. This allows you to execute a command to include a CGI Output in your html file.

Now to input the poll_it_ssi.cgi script into an HTML page, use this code (After finding out what you need to use for SSI calls from the above explanation):
<!--#exec.cgi=&quot;cgi-bin/poll_it_ssi.cgi&quot;-->[/tt]

I inserted the script above into an .shtml file, so I could view the poll in a webpage, but I received an error.

Here’s the error…

[tt][an error occurred while processing this directive][/tt]

Here’s my url…

http://jennyw3.netfirms.com/002_ssi_test.shtml

I tried another ssi script (date script) to make sure I was doing the .shtml thing correctly and received a successful output…
I inserted the following SSI into an .shtml page…

[tt]<!--#echo var=&quot;DATE_LOCAL&quot; -->[/tt]

Here were my results…

http://jennyw3.netfirms.com/001_ssi_test.shtml

Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong?


If you’re interested, here’s the full readme doc…

http://jennyw3.netfirms.com/text_files_for_viewing_only/INSTALL_Poll_It_v2.05.txt

If you need any more information please let me know!

Thanks,
Jenny

 

[ayjaycee]

Assuming you're hosting on an Apache server, have you set up the .htaccess file to support .shtml & cgi?

EG :-
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

HTH

 

[JennyW]

Hi,

Well, I don't run the Apache server on my system. The company I put my site on does all that stuff.

Do I have to upload the .htaccess file to my

http://www directoy

or cgi-bin?

Thanks,
Jenny

 

[riffy]

hey i might sound silly for even asking you this, but ure cgi file is in the cgi-bin folder right???...
or if that doesn't work, what if you substitute
<!--#exec.cgi=&quot;...&quot; --> with <!--#exec cmd=&quot;...&quot; -->


i don't know if that's an option but i've worked on a site that calls a pl file and it has exec cmd instead of exec.cgi
but then again since ures is a cgi file it's prolly different..
plus that's what it says in the readme correct??

sorry for being so inquisitive...

arif
X-) s-)

 

[JennyW]

Hiee!

My .cgi file ([tt]poll_it_ssi.cgi[/tt]) is in the cgi-bin. But my html file which has the SSI call, is in the

http://www directory.

The following is the SSI call on my html page…

[tt]<!--#exec.cgi=&quot;cgi-bin/poll_it_ssi.cgi&quot;-->[/tt]

I’m not sure where to go from here?

Thanks for reading and responding!
Jenny

 

[yahve]

Hi,

first, riffy is right, you should use:
<!--#exec cgi=&quot;path/to/Poll_It_SSI.cgi&quot; --> no dot between exec and cgi.

second, many servers do not allow the #exec directive for security reason. that means that the #include, #echo, #config, #fsize and #flastmod may all work and #exec still would not work.

bye.