includes in php as cgi

[maniactive]

I am in the process of moving a site to a new server.

On the old server, these two functions:

<?include("header.shtml");?>

and

<?include("footer.shtml");?>

allowed me to successful include a simple header and footer on every
page of the site.

However: on the new server, php is installed as cgi.

What function will allow me to successfully include the header and
footer files with this configuration? The host swears that shtml works
perfectly as an include for the php installed as cgi configuration --
but I cannot get it to work with this standard command.

Anybody have any ideas?

[Good Man]

ma********@gmail.com wrote in news:1182451556.344094.198280
@c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

However: on the new server, php is installed as cgi.

What function will allow me to successfully include the header and
footer files with this configuration? The host swears that shtml works
perfectly as an include for the php installed as cgi configuration --
but I cannot get it to work with this standard command.

Anybody have any ideas?

it shouldn't make a difference, but perhaps double-check the path? It may
require the full server path to the file, ie:

<?php include("/path/to/include.php"); ?>

as oppposed to

<?php include("include.php"); ?>

[maniactive]

it shouldn't make a difference, but perhaps double-check the path? It may
require the full server path to the file, ie:

<?php include("/path/to/include.php"); ?>

as oppposed to

<?php include("include.php"); ?>

Thanks for responding Good Man!

Nope, that didn't work either....but you did provide an important
clue.

I was using

<?include("header.shtml");?>

and you suggested

<?php include("header.shtml");?>

I tried that, too -- but no luck. I also tried the path...and the
server path.

Still no luck.

Thanks anyway.

Any other ideas?

[maniactive]

it shouldn't make a difference, but perhaps double-check the path? It may
require the full server path to the file, ie:

<?php include("/path/to/include.php"); ?>

as oppposed to

<?php include("include.php"); ?>

Thanks for responding Good Man!

Nope, that didn't work either....but you did provide an important
clue.

I was using

<?include("header.shtml");?>

and you suggested

<?php include("header.shtml");?>

I tried that, too -- but no luck. I also tried the path...and the
server path.

Still no luck.

Thanks anyway.

Any other ideas?

[maniactive]

it shouldn't make a difference, but perhaps double-check the path? It may
require the full server path to the file, ie:

<?php include("/path/to/include.php"); ?>

as oppposed to

<?php include("include.php"); ?>

Thanks for responding Good Man!

Nope, that didn't work either....but you did provide an important
clue.

I was using

<?include("header.shtml");?>

and you suggested

<?php include("header.shtml");?>

I tried that, too -- but no luck. I also tried the path...and the
server path.

Still no luck.

Thanks anyway.

Any other ideas?

[maniactive]

it shouldn't make a difference, but perhaps double-check the path? It may
require the full server path to the file, ie:

<?php include("/path/to/include.php"); ?>

as oppposed to

<?php include("include.php"); ?>

Thanks for responding Good Man!

Nope, that didn't work either....but you did provide an important
clue.

I was using

<?include("header.shtml");?>

and you suggested

<?php include("header.shtml");?>

I tried that, too -- but no luck. I also tried the path...and the
server path.

Still no luck.

Thanks anyway.

Any other ideas?

[maniactive]

it shouldn't make a difference, but perhaps double-check the path? It may
require the full server path to the file, ie:

<?php include("/path/to/include.php"); ?>

as oppposed to

<?php include("include.php"); ?>

Thanks for responding Good Man!

Nope, that didn't work either....but you did provide an important
clue.

I was using

<?include("header.shtml");?>

and you suggested

<?php include("header.shtml");?>

I tried that, too -- but no luck. I also tried the path...and the
server path.

Still no luck.

Thanks anyway.

Any other ideas?

[axlq]

In article <11*********************@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups. com>,
<ma********@gmail.comwrote:

><?php include("header.shtml");?>

I tried that, too -- but no luck. I also tried the path...and the
server path.
Still no luck.
Thanks anyway.
Any other ideas?

Well, the php include directive is suppose to include other php
code. It appears (and I'm guessing) that you are including an HTML
file, which should be output rather than executed as PHP.

Why not just say
<?php readfile("header.shtml"); ?>

That's what you should do if the file you're reading is simply text
or HTML that you want to output.
See http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php

If that doesn't work, then I think your next step is to contact your
hosting services tech support; after all, they are the ones who seem
to have provided a broken implementation of php.

-A