include file not called in asp page

[makemusic]

Hi,

I'm running a site locally using IIS and am having problems displaying include files in my asp pages (<!--#include file="top.asp" -->). I can see them when I preview browser (F12) but when i try and view as a web page the browser just doesn't want to include my pages.

I've been struggling with this for a while and have tried stripping everything back down to a basic asp page to include one word in a simple table - still it doesn't display.

I may be a bit rusty here but do I need to tell IIS that I'm using includes, add a sysconfig file in my root dir, or is it something more simple than that?

Any help gratefully received!

 

[lebisol]

the simplest thing to look into would be making sure that your include file:
does NOT have any confilitng HTML leading tags (<%,head tags,page title etc.)
and that the URL/path is correct with the respect to server root.
other than IIS not working correctly you should not have any problems...


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[makemusic]

Yep, done all that. My include file contains one word. No html or anything else. The root is correct also. This is something else......I'm sure it is a problem with the set-up of my site directory.