includes and paths

Junior WebHelper Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 1

I am using JSP and want to use SSI as well. I have small html files for header, footer, etc that are included in the JSPs - these html files can refer to graphics in a common images directory.

As my site grows some pages are in the document root but I want to group others in sub-directories. This causes a problem because a valid path to an image from a page in the document root is not a valid path from a page in a sub-directory - e.g. the header.html cannot refer to "images/banner.jpg" for the index.jsp and "../images/banner.jpg" for the football/westham.jsp

This must be a common situation - what's the solution?

Many thanks,
Bill

Junior WebHelper Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 3

Probably best using php to include the files, that's what I do and it works like a charm. You will need to rename your "header.html" to .php but it won't affect your site.

<? php include"folder/file.php"; ?>

Junior WebHelper Joined: 15 May 2009 Posts: 1

billf wrote:

I am using JSP and want to use SSI as well. I have small html files for header, footer, etc that are included in the JSPs - these html files can refer to graphics in a common images directory.

As my site grows some pages are in the document root but I want to group others in sub-directories. This causes a problem because a valid path to an image from a page in the document root is not a valid path from a page in a sub-directory - e.g. the header.html cannot refer to "images/banner.jpg" for the index.jsp and "../images/banner.jpg" for the football/westham.jsp

This must be a common situation - what's the solution?

Many thanks,
Bill

thanks for sharing some ideas, i learn something new now..

regards to u,

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Junior WebHelper Joined: 28 Sep 2010 Posts: 4

Remote file may be processed at the remote server (depending on the file extension and the fact if the remote server runs PHP or not) but it still has to produce a valid PHP script because it will be processed at the local server. If the file from the remote server should be processed there and outputted only, readfile() is much better function to use. Otherwise, special care should be taken to secure the remote script to produce a valid and desired code.