Okie dokie, I'm not a programmer and I don't really know any of the fancy languages (ie: Perl, C++, etc), the only one I really know and know well is HTML...anyway and I'm having a lot of trouble linking to a cgi-script. It works fine when I preview in a browser, but it's suppose to also be placed on the page. The script is called Ratem (for more info go here:http://cgi-resource.co.uk/pages/ratem.shtml)

It says that I can link to it by:

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From instructions-

Use either of the two methods below for linking to it. Make sure you use a different id number for each item you want peopel to vote on.


1. If you have SSI you can use the exec cgi command like:
<!--#include virtual="http://path to your site/cgi-bin/ratem.cgi?id=3" -->
This'll display the voting form and results directly on any page.


2. If you don't have SSI you can just link to it:
http://path to your site/cgi-bin/ratem.cgi?id=3


SSI example:

Say you had item1, item2 and item3.

Item1 <!--#include virtual="http://path to your site/cgi-bin/ratem.cgi?id=1" -->
Item2 <!--#include virtual="http://path to your site/cgi-bin/ratem.cgi?id=2" -->
Item3 <!--#include virtual="http://path to your site/cgi-bin/ratem.cgi?id=3" -->

However, I'm not really sure how #2 works and I can't get the SSI examples to work (and yes, I checked, I do have SSI).

This is what I changed when I use the SSI code:
<!--#include virtual="http://www.sweet-madness.net/cgi-bin/ratem.cgi?id=1" -->

But nothing happens, did I forget to change something else (Which I believe I did, because I checked the URL and it works).

Can anyone help me?

Does your file have the extension of .shtml ? On 99% of the servers offering SSI it needs to have that extension in order for the SSI to get parsed as SSI.

hmmm...okay, well, if my file isn't in .shtml, do you know how the other one is to suppose to work? The one that says:
2. If you don't have SSI you can just link to it:
http://path to your site/cgi-bin/ratem.cgi?id=3

I know that just by putting the path won't do anything, so how exactly does it work?

And another way, that i've seen many times it to create a new blank page, with the background the same color as the background on your site. Use the shtml, and have it on your page via Iframe.

I dunno, how does .shtml work exactly? Is it exactly like HTML? The only probably I see with your solution, impudicity, is that I also need the script for other things besides for my page.

Originally posted by Kit


This is what I changed when I use the SSI code:
<!--#include virtual="http://www.sweet-madness.net/cgi-bin/ratem.cgi?id=1" -->

But nothing happens, did I forget to change something else (Which I believe I did, because I checked the URL and it works).

Can anyone help me?

The instructions you were working from were poorly written (wrong in fact). You may not include a hostname in an include virtual URL. In other words, you cannot include (using an include virtual SSI tag) content from a domain other than the one with the include virtual tag, because all URLS specified must be relative to the current document or relative to the Document Root (without and with a beginning slash respectively)

The following would probably be what you wanted, assuming you were trying to include a script from your own site (www.sweet-madness.net)


<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/ratem.cgi?id=1" -->