Problem with Conditional SSI after Server Change

[ginger213]

Hi,

I'm assuming that my problem started after a recent server change by my host, but I'm not sure. I just know that it worked for years, and today I noticed it doesn't and the host switched to a new server today. Anyway, here's my problem:

I'm using the following conditional ssi call to include a certain file depending on the day of the month (only showing day 1 and day 7 ... which is today's date:

<!--#config timefmt="%d" -->
<!--#if expr="$DATE_LOCAL = 01" --> 
<!--#include file="tip1.html" -->
<!--#elif expr="$DATE_LOCAL = 07" --> 
<!--#include file="tip7.html" -->
<!--#endif -->

So, today it should be including the file called tip7.html into a page called tod.shtml, but it's not working. No error messages or anything, just not including the file. All files are in the same directory.

The reason I'm wondering if it has to do with the server change is that once on another host, when trying to use the typical ssi date format to include the date on a page, the host said that the ssi formatting command I was trying to use did not work on that type of server, so I'm wondering if different servers recognize different date formatting code.

Any suggestions appreciated!

ginger

 

[feherke]

Hi

Your code works fine for me. I would insert some [tt]echo[/tt] commands for debugging.

I have somehow similar code on my site to insert advertisement into the pages. I have 60 advertisement files and the SSI inserts to one mathing the current seconds. The difference is that I was lazy to write 60 pairs of [tt]if[/tt]s and [tt]include[/tt]s.

<!--#config timefmt="%S" -->
<!--#include file="include/adv$DATE_LOCAL.html" -->

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ginger213]

Hi,

Good idea to use seconds as the variable for inserting the ads. I'm sure I could do something similar using the date, but I still have the problem that it's not functioning with the expression that I have.

I have tried using the following to try to capture an error, and now I get "No date handler file available."

<!--#else --> 
<!--#set var="errmsg" value=" No date handler file available " --> 
<!--#echo var="errmsg" -->

Any ideas?

Thanks ...

ginger

 

[feherke]

Hi

So the condition evaluates to false and the message is displayed on the else branch. Wired.

After thread65-1286419, is better to ask you now : are you sure that is an Apache server with regular SSI module ?

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ginger213]

Hi,

I don't know if it has a regular SSI module, but it worked for years until recently, and they just switched to a new/different server. It's a paid hosting account and yes, it is Apache:

SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/2.0.52 (BlueQuartz)

I'll continue to try different things. I notice in some ssi tutorials there are braces around the variables like:

${DATE_LOCAL}

. . . and in some tutorials I see forward slashes around the values like:

/09/

So I'll try some different things and see how I make out.

Thanks again!

ginger

 

[feherke]

Hi

I notice in some ssi tutorials there are braces around the variables

That is required if the name of the variable is followed by literal value which would make the evaluation to fail.

For example in my example the filenames looks like adv10.html, so the expression is :

<!--#include file="include/adv$DATE_LOCAL.html" -->

But if the filename was 10adv.html, the code would need the braces to separate the variable name and the literal.

[s]<!--#include file="include/$[highlight pink]DATE_LOCALadv[/highlight].html" -->[/s]

<!--#include file="include/$[red]{[/red][highlight pink]DATE_LOCAL[/highlight][red]}[/red]adv.html" -->

in some tutorials I see forward slashes around the values

That is for regular expression matching.

Apache's SSI module should not require any of those. But go ahead, try them.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ginger213]

Thanks for that explanation feherke. It seems that there's a problem with the ssi module on this server because it's not displaying the proper values for the different variables in config timefmt.

I need to contact my server admin and see what's causing that.

Thanks for all of your help!

ginger