ASP Error

Ben · 1st March 2005, 08:42 AM

i'm getting this erroR... Wot doeS it mean?

Code:

Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0234'
 
  Invalid include directive 
 
  E:\INETPUB\ESVC001320\HTML\../assets/lib/MSDBConnection.inc, line 2
 
  Server side include directives may not be present in script blocks. Please use the SRC= attribute of the <SCRIPT> tag.

**Mr. Tech** · 1st March 2005, 08:58 AM

In order for IIS (or any web server) to take your script and load it into memory for running on the server, it has to do a number of things.

One of the steps is to process include directives. What this means is, IIS looks for the #inlcude line and then tries to find the file and glue it into place.

Unfortunately, this only works when the #include is in the HTML part of your script.

Example that works:

Code:

<html>
<!-- #include file="whatever.inc"-->
<body>
<%
      ' some ASP here..
%>
</body>
</html>

Another example that works:

Code:

<!-- #include virtual="/functions.asp"-->
<%
     ' some ASP code here..
%>

This does not work:

Code:

<%  
' some ASP here.. 

<!-- #include file="whatever.asp"-->  

' a little more ASP here.. 
%>

The problem is that the include directive is present inside your ASP script block!

It's just a rule and I didn't make it! :-)