thanks for responding

> what is put in the httpd error log when this occurs?  that
> information
> could be valuable.

here is the log entry:

Fri Oct 25 14:57:22 2002] [error] [client 68.68.42.71] unable to include
"../cgi-bin/quotes/quotemaster.cgi?" in parsed file
/usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/neclimbs.com/httpdocs/test_quotes.shtml

> from the mod_include documentation:
>
> Note that the comment terminator (-->) should be preceded by
> whitespace
> to ensure that it isn't considered part of an SSI token.

OK, just took care of that to no avail

> from the mod_include documentation:
>
> The include virtual element should be used in preference to exec cgi.
> In particular, if you need to pass additional arguments to a
> CGI program,
> using the query string, this cannot be done with exec cgi,
> but can be done
> with include virtual, as shown here:
> <!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/example.cgi?argument=value" -->

right now I'm not sending parameters, but I have switched to the virtual
method just to be sure.

still searching...

Al



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