Server side include error

[pschmehl]

I'm trying to figure out why I'm getting what appears to be a server side include error on a page on our site. This error appears at the very top left-hand area of the page:

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

This page has thirteen server side includes on it. I've grepped and examined the includes, including looking for misspellings, missing characters, etc. I don't see anything wrong with any of them, but clearly something isn't working. I've verified the names, locations, and permissions of the files referenced and found no errors. I've enabled debugging in Apache (for the virtual host) and added DumpIOInput On to its conf file.

Is there anything I can do to figure out why this error is being generated? A trace or something?

Here's all of the includes:

# grep "include virtual" /var/www/html/techtips/index.htm

<td width="212" height="6008" valign="top"><br><!--#[B]include virtual[/B]="../includes/ads/gallerycorner.shtml" -->

<!--#[B]include virtual[/B]="../includes/navigate_stack.html" -->

<p> <!--#[B]include virtual[/B]="../includes/ads/3.html" --><br>

<!--#[B]include virtual[/B]="../includes/adstack_googlelink.shtml" -->

<!--#[B]include virtual[/B]="../includes/forum.html" -->

<!--#[B]include virtual[/B]="../includes/gallery nav.html" -->

<!--#[B]include virtual[/B]="../includes/picture posting.html" -->

<!--#[B]include virtual[/B]="../includes/ads/5.html" --> <hr width="123">

<!--#[B]include virtual[/B]="../includes/ads/1.html" --><br><hr width="123">

<!--#[B]include virtual[/B]="../includes/ads/7.html" --><br>

<td colspan="3" valign="top"><hr width="1100" color="red" class="style41"><!--#[B]include virtual[/B]="../includes/menu.shtml"--></td>

<td colspan="3" valign="top"><!--#[B]include virtual[/B]="../includes/footer_ad.shtml"--></td>

[pschmehl]

Never mind. It was being caused by a reference to a javascript code, not a server side include. It's been removed, and the error is gone.

[deathshadow]

Mein gott is that SHTML? I've not seen that in 15 years. Though admittedly it's been more than two decades since the last time I used the deprecated valign or color attributes.

Just out of morbid curiosity, how old is this code?

[pschmehl]

Some of it is twenty years old.