[Tutor] Re: Hit Counter

[Michael P. Reilly]

dman wrote
> 
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 08:48:07AM -0700, Jon Cosby wrote:
> | Thanks for the responses so far. I've made some changes, but
> | so far haven't resolved the problem. I've added the line
> | 
> | <!--#exec cgi="cgi-bin/counter.pyw"-->
> | 
> | to my Web page, which by the looks of it, should execute the
> | script each time I load the Web page. It's only running when
> | I the script page. Can anybody see why this is?
> 
> What web server are you using?  '<!--' starts a comment (though '<!'
> might be all you need) and '-->' ends a comment (though '>' might be
> enough).  Thus everything in between those have no effect at all.  I
> do recall seeing that on previous versions of Zope that sort of syntax
> was used in their DTML files.

Most all web servers in the last ten years have been able to handle
Server-Side Includes (SSIs), IF activated in the server.  It all depends
on what the server allows.   Zope is not the web, it is one application
server on the web, and there are more books out there describing (in part)
SSIs than Zope and DTML.

  -Arcege

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