April 17, 2002
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Developer: I have a couple of questions about those files you sent me.
Me: Sure.
Developer: So, you know that black space at the top of every page?
Me: Yes…
Developer: Is that where the navigation is going to go?
Me: What do you mean, going to go? You don’t see it?
Developer: No.
Me: It’s just a black stripe across the top of the page? There’s no graphics?
Developer: Right.
Me: Your server isn’t parsing the SSI tags. The navbar is an include file. If the page isn’t parsed for SSI, the navbar won’t show up. Neither will the footer text.
Developer: Oh.
Me: You guys are running an IIS server, right?
Developer: Yes.
Me: Well, IIS only parses .asp and .shtm files by default. You need to add .htm and .html extensions to the configuration in order for the server to parse those types of files for server side tags.
Developer: Oh?
Me: Change one of the file extensions from .html to .asp and see if that works.
Developer: Ah. Yeah, that’s better.
Me: How about if I just send you files with .asp extensions instead? Would that be simpler?
Developer: Yeah, that ‘d be good. Thanks.
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