This might help . . .
I was having the same problems as Kel, Lauren etc., but I got out of jail - not sure if what I went through will help but for what it’s worth, here it is:
I was editing my html in frontpage (I know, I know) and when I pasted the "exec cgi="cgi-bin/ubb/ubbnews.cgi?ns_id=1" command, I kept getting wild characters. So I cleaned it up using dreamweaver (trial) and then logged on to my host server suspecting that front page extensions might be an issue.
I had never turned them on but I guessed that given the popularity of the prog. – they might be ‘on’ by default – they were so off they came.
I then read about html parsing problems and a little hack to the .htaccess file when using the subdir – htdocs. (mine’s at the same level as cgi-bin) So I modified the .htaccess as per the text below
Quote Because it is very resource intensive to have the server parse all HTML files it serves, it is common not to parse .html files for SSI's. You can make it parse all files on your site however by adding the following line to your .htaccess file in your htdocs directory. AddHandler server-parsed .html This will make all subdirectories (i.e., your entire site) parse *.html files.
End quoteThere was a bit more info about ssi here ‘http://powweb.com/support/ssi.html’ including a simple (time) script which worked for me, demonstrating that I could ssi to html docs on my server. But I still kept getting - [an error occurred while processing this directive] – during the ubb call.
Finally I checked this link “http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html#includingtheresultsofacgiprogram” which referred to outputting the results of a cgi script, and I noticed the (#include virtual="/cgi-bin/etc.etc) variation as detailed by Greg. So I changed mine and “VOILA”
Now I’m not sure which of these steps cured the problem, I had tried the (#include virtual="/cgi-bin/) earlier without success so I suspect it might have been a combination of crap html in F/Page, F/P extensions and the .htaccess – I’m not skilled at all when it comes to understanding how servers work so I may be way off base – but anyhow – it worked in the end.
Now – can anybody advise on how best to format the output – it’s taking up a lot of room (even with headers only) especially with the date in there. I’ve tried to change the style template and reduce the font but I’ll still struggle to match my page
I guess it’ll have to wait until tomorrow - it’s 3:45am in Sydney and I’m going blind
– g’night all
PS - I just had to re-type ALL this again - I lost the lot because I'd included html parentheses in the post - not happy
