Though not 100% related to Perl, it is about Perl and I know one of you wise monks can help me out.

I have a new website and I want to include a perl chat script in a specific table on every page. I can get the SSI to work perfectly if the files calling the chat script are in the main directory. But if I call the chat script from a different file than my main directory, it can't find it.

<!--#include virtual="/home/richards/public_html/cgi/chat.cgi"-->

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That's the code I am trying to use to call the CGI script. This is on a sub domain (cgi.domain.com) so that's why there's a folder /cgi/, but it's the main folder on this sub domain.

It works for all files calling the chat script in the /cgi/ folder but anything outside this folder (ie: /cgi/tutorials/, /cgi/about/) can't locate it.

This is an example of the error using the exact code as shown above. 

unable to include file "/home/richards/public_html/cgi/chat.cgi" in pa
+rsed file /home/richards/public_html/cgi/tutorials/index.shtml

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Does anyone know what I did wrong? The file path IS right.

Thanks.

Retitled by davido.

In reply to OT: Using global SSIs by Anonymous Monk

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