UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting Another SSI question

Is it possible to use the SS Include to execute a CGI script that resides on another server? For example say the page in question was located at http://www.myserver.com/page.shtml and it contained the SSI tag Would this work?

The reason i ask is because my ubb is set up on a IIS server that, due to it not being unix/linux, does not have sendmail and doesnt have SMTP mail facilities either. But i would like to set up a mailing list/feedback system on the site and would need the email facilities for these to work.

So what i was thinking is that maybe i could install the scripts on a unix/linux based server and simply include them using SSI. Providing thats possible that is.



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"Oh bugger, now what the hell have I done wrong?"

Well I am no expert. But the logical answer is yes it should. But I do not know for a fact.

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"In every man there is evil. But the question is what is true evil?"
- @DemonBob@ the original Malo hombre

Ive just been experimenting and it doesnt work..... I get "Cannot #exec due to lack of EXECUTE permissions"

Never mind, ill just set up some frames instead.

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"Oh bugger, now what the hell have I done wrong?"

Phil, sounds like you are on an Apache server (same here). Use in place of and you should be good to go


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Jeremiah
FreakScene - The Dinosaur Jr Audio/Visual Archive
My UBB

technically, this is a server-side issue, but since the script at hand is CGI, I'm moving this to the CGI forums. Forgive me if I'm wrong in doing this.

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a nothing thing

? Empire, it is an SSI issue. There is no specific CGI program in question, just the way to use SSI to call it on his server.

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Jeremiah
FreakScene - The Dinosaur Jr Audio/Visual Archive
My UBB

Sometimes the lines between these forums gets a bit blurry.......

Well actually the server id be using the SSI commands on runs on IIS on windows, the scripts run on Apache/linux though cos i need their sendmail facilities....

Ill have a try with anyway and see what happens.....



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"Oh bugger, now what the hell have I done wrong?"

Nope, no joy. Got an "Error processing SSI file '/http:/www.myhost.com/cgi/hello.cgi'" message this time.




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"Oh bugger, now what the hell have I done wrong?"

So you are using 2 seperate servers? Try include file.

I don't think you can use a URL for path with include virtual. i think you have to link to the virtual location.

Syntax: include file|virtual="path"

The include directive inserts the text of another document, specified either as a file or a virtual file. Path must be relative to the current document in the case of a file, or it can be a virtual path. For example:






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Jeremiah
FreakScene - The Dinosaur Jr Audio/Visual Archive
My UBB

I think im just gonna cheat and put the page within a frame.... Sometimes i make life too difficult for myself...

Plus im using a silly amount of SSI calls on teh site as it is, i think my server would appreciate the break.

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"Oh bugger, now what the hell have I done wrong?"