SSI

[johnSteve]

Do I need to use the shtml extension on my file pages in order to take advantage of Server Side Includes?

If not,  how do I use it?

I have a page

http://www.sturgood.com/demos/new_index_1d1.shtml

that when saved as just html, does not work.

http://www.sturgood.com/demos/new_index_1d1.html

The Tools and More menu on right side

Thanks

johnSteve

[Pat]

Hi johnSteve,

The answer is technicaly yes and no.  From a shared host environment the answer is yes.  

You can setup .html files to be server parsed, however it takes up more server load to parse every single html file for server side includes and therefore we ask customers to use the .shtml extensions.

I am not real familar with all the technical aspects of SSI and how to parse the .html extensions, but here is a link that you may find helpful.

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess4.shtml

Pat