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tadpole · 2012-10-15, 12:57 PM

I uploaded that as my testing page and am still receiving a blank page. The source I am getting is :

<p><html><head><title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>

</body></html></p>

That was using the insert button Front page has, I also typed it in exactly as your sample code and got a blank page.

ecchi · 2012-10-15, 03:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tadpole

I uploaded that as my testing page and am still receiving a blank page.

Your host has not enabled SSI. They may also have not enabled your CGI-BIN. If they were both enabled that page would have either worked or given you an error message. And either way, the server at your host's end should have deleted the following line from your source code:

Code:

<!--#include virtual="cgi-bin/readblog.cgi"-->

Copy and paste the last three messages on this board, and send them to your hosting company. They will be able to work out what they are doing wrong from these three posts.

flowersgone · 2012-10-19, 07:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tadpole

The source I am getting is :

<p><html><head><title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>

</body></html></p>

That also indicates to me that the file is not being processed with server side include processing. With server side include processing the <!--#include ... line should be gone and replaced with something else.

I have set up an example page here: http://development.toosxxx4.com/ssh-test/test.shtml

The source code is below:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>

<html>
<head><title>shtml test page</title></head>
<body>

<h3>include flat html</h3>
<!--#include virtual="static.html"-->

<h3>include cgi from bad config</h3>
<!--#include virtual="/no-such-cgi-bin/noprog.cgi"-->

<h3>include cgi from good config</h3>
<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/smaller-min.cgi"-->

</body>
</html>

When you do a view source on the result page all the #include lines are gone including the one with a bad cgi directive. The line with a bad cgi directive is replaced at the hosting computer with an error message so the message and not the include line is sent to the browser.

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tadpole · 2012-10-19, 11:55 AM

Thanks for your reply ecchi, and flowersgone for the example page.

The script I have uploaded to cgi, and the test.shtml is in the root. I have tried both codes :-

<html><head><title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>

</body></html>

and

<html><head><title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>

</body></html>

I am still receiving a blank page that shows the source code exactly as the above two examples.

I have tried saving the script file with .txt and .cgi extensions, but nothing is working or giving me an error message.

ecchi · 2012-10-23, 04:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tadpole

I have tried saving the script file with .txt and .cgi extensions, but nothing is working or giving me an error message.

At this point it does not matter what you do with the script file because the shtml file is not even looking at it yet. Your host has NOT enabled SSI. I cannot understand how they think they have. Try sending them the message below, although obviously replace (name) and (domain) with your own name and domain.

Quote:

I am trying to help (name) get a script of mine working on (domain). The script is called from a shtml page. Although you have assured (name) that SSI is enabled, this is not correct. If you look at the page on the domain called test.shtml in a web browser you will notice that it is a blank page. If both the script and SSI call are working it would show an adult blog feed. If there was a problem with the script the page would show an error message. There is no such message. Even if I were to assume your server was running some cut price software that did not show an error code (I'm NOT saying you are, I am just trying to cover all possibilities here), it would still delete the call to SSI from the page. If you look at the source code, you will see that this has not been done. The only way that can happen is if SSI is not enabled for this account. So please could you enable it.

Also: To save the possibility of future problems please check that CGI is enabled and that your Perl engine is live.

Finally, in your previous message you stated that your server does not use the usual protocol of calling the folder where the scripts are stored "cgi-bin" and instead calls it simply "cgi". Could I ask you to confirm this and also let me know if there are any other unusual settings on your server that I need to know about, to avoid future problems. And is your path to Perl "usr/bin/perl" as is common, or do you use any unusual folder names/directory structure that I need to know about?

Thank you in advance for your help.

2012-10-15, 12:57 PM	#1
tadpole Oh! I haven't changed since high school and suddenly I am uncool Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Darkest Africa Posts: 258	I uploaded that as my testing page and am still receiving a blank page. The source I am getting is : <p><!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan --><html><head><title>Test</title> </head> <body> <!--#include virtual="cgi-bin/readblog.cgi"--> </body></html><!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan --></p> That was using the insert button Front page has, I also typed it in exactly as your sample code and got a blank page.

2012-10-19, 11:55 AM	#4
tadpole Oh! I haven't changed since high school and suddenly I am uncool Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Darkest Africa Posts: 258	Thanks for your reply ecchi, and flowersgone for the example page. The script I have uploaded to cgi, and the test.shtml is in the root. I have tried both codes :- <html><head><title>Test</title> </head> <body> <!--#include virtual="cgi/readblog.cgi"--> </body></html> and <html><head><title>Test</title> </head> <body> <!--#include virtual="/cgi/readblog.cgi"--> </body></html> I am still receiving a blank page that shows the source code exactly as the above two examples. I have tried saving the script file with .txt and .cgi extensions, but nothing is working or giving me an error message.