Synopsis: Server-side includes misbehaving slightly State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: marc State-Changed-When: Fri Dec 12 10:25:45 PST 1997 State-Changed-Why: Please go over the mod_include documentation. "file" is supposed to behave that way; it does not take absolute paths.
"virtual" is the correct way of doing such things.
