I've recently setup apache 2.0.49 (SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 rpm package) and Tomcat 5.5.9 (downloaded from jakarta site). Everything appears to be working great. First some information: moving apps from Websphere/IBM HTTP server to Tomcat/Apache web document root: /srv/www/websiteX/htdocs websiteX tomcat root: /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/websiteX both directories have an "include" directory. this is the way it was setup before i got here. static content (html, shtml, images, etc) is the the web root, jsp and servlets in the tomcat root. i've setup apache/tomcat so that static content gets handled by apache and jsp/servlets get handed off to tomcat. now the problem: ----- index.shtml snippet ----- ... html ... <!-- include a file from the websiteX/include dir --> <!--#include virtual="include/somefile.htm" --> ... more html and more includes ... <!-- this one works as well --> <!-- include a jsp page from the tomcat websiteX/include dir --> <!--#include virtual="include/foobar.jsp" --> <!-- now every include breaks after the jsp --> <!--#include virtual="include/someotherfile.htm" --> .. more html and more includes ... ----- snippet ----- the jsp gets handled by Tomcat just fine and gets included in the resulting HTML, however, every single include after that breaks. the Apache error log indicates that every SSI include after the jsp include is looking in: /srv/www/websiteX/htdocs/include/include from the apache error log: [Wed Jul 06 08:17:28 2005] [error] [client x.x.x.x] File does not exist: /srv/www/websiteX/htdocs/include/include [Wed Jul 06 08:17:28 2005] [error] [client x.x.x.x] unable to include "include/bottomnav.htm" in parsed file /srv/www/websiteX/htdocs/index.shtml note the extra "include" directory. of course, this directory does not exist. If I comment out the jsp SSI include, all the SSI includes after it work. Also, if i prepend all the include paths with a "/", everything works great. the issue is that this was working under websphere/ibm http server without the "/"'s. i've googled all over the place for answers and can't find any discussions about this problem. anyone have any ideas? thanks. Chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx