SSI help please

[Weapon]

well this can be pretty confusing so I will draw a diagram

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well basicly my site looks like that anyways where no.02 is I use SSI to put my banner in whuch looks something like this <!--#exec cgi="/path-to-cgi-script"-->. I put that into the seperate file that the SSI script in no.02 call, but instead of printing out the banner it prints out <!--#exec cgi="/path-to-cgi-script"--> so my theory is that the SSI script prints out what is exacly shown on the seperate file. I was just windering is there anyway around this? would it help if I use IFRAME to link it to a brand new page and in the brand new page then it that page I put the script <!--#exec cgi="/path-to-cgi-script"-->?

[lucifer]

If you put it in an IFRAME then it won't show on netscape.

SSI don't run includes as a SSI page just as a text file

php does you could use this

or exec a script that then calls the script you want

hope that makes sense