Jay I'm not sure I fully understand your problem. Why not just make the virtual point to a site-root relative address (by using a single slash)? <!--#include virtual="/includes/foo.txt" --> since SSI's only work when served this will work locally or on-line. It's what I do... If you're just starting with SSI, may I humbly suggest you take a look at: http://www.georgedillon.com/web/101_ssi.shtml and http://www.georgedillon.com/web/101_ssi_environment_variables.shtml if not, forgive me for suggesting them! HTH George Dillon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Fitzgerald" <jayfitz at bayou.com> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 1:19 AM Subject: [thelist] SSI