[thelist] SSI for navigation

[Palyne Gaenir]

Hi Martha,

See one of my older sites,
http://www.lfr.org/csl/media/ciaairreport.shtml
is one page of example -- each 'section' of the site uses SSI to 
'include' navigation for the left column of a table, so no frames. I 
can send you more refs if you want them.  Greatest thing since sliced 
bread.  Well, till I found ColdFusion anyway.  (I'm not a CF 
evangelist.  Just a run of the mill worshipper. :-))

<tip type="SSI" nature="warning">
I was using SSI links on just the internal pages of a number of my 
sites.  Most used root-based relative links, e.g., 
/includesdirectory/includefile.html
Moved my domains to a new server, checked to make sure all the sites 
showed up before moving... but didn't look inside them all.  
CRASH! THIS server will NOT accept that kind of link in an SSI, nor 
will it accept a hard link; all the links have to be very relative... 
entire sites went down overnight, and so I fixed them eventually (in 
my sleep) but my personal hobby site still has about 20 megs of 
archives offline for it, probably almost forever.
It could happen to you. ;-)  Be aware.
</tip>

Palyne