Title: using php virtual
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# using php virtual

 *  Resolved [rotatingastrothing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rotatingastrothing/)
 * (@rotatingastrothing)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-virtual/)
 * Hi, I’m trying to give a wordpress installation the look of an existing website
   programmed in .shtml with server side includes. As a test I reprogrammed one 
   of the pages as a php page with the SSI pages running as a <?php virtual (“filename”);?
   > That works really well and the page looks correct. However when I try to write
   a wordpress theme incorporating this I get an error when I preview it through
   the admin panel,
 * Warning: virtual() [function.virtual]: Unable to include ‘/var/www/styles/Header.
   shtml’ – request execution failed in /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/themes/ptheme/
   header.php on line 77
 * Does wordpress allow a php virtual call? If not what am I doing wrong. I’m not
   responsible for the whole site so it can’t be completely rewritten in php.

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 *  Thread Starter [rotatingastrothing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rotatingastrothing/)
 * (@rotatingastrothing)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-virtual/#post-1609332)
 * Path problem, solved it myself

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 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)
 * [ssi](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ssi/)
 * [virtual](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/virtual/)

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