Server Side Include Question

robert89 · Aug 23, 2005

Not sure if I have the right forum but here goes.

Have just rediscovered includes.

I have an existing site that we want to display within our site. We do not want to use frames, however, we want the header and footer of our site to display at the top and bottom of each page of the existing site. i.e.
Myheader
Existing Site (totally intact)
Myfooter

I ran an experiment using includes. Placed an include just below the <body> tag and another include just above the </body> in the index page of the existing site. Had to save the file as shtml. The resulting page was just what I was looking for.

My problem, from my understanding, if I wanted to place the includes in the remaining pages of the existing site, I would have to save each page with an shtml extension. This then means I would have to change all the existing site's internal links to shtml as well.

Is there away around this. Can I have those who look after the server at work set my *.html pages to allow includes.

Or are there any ideas of other approches. The main idea is that I make as few changes to the sources files in the existing site as possible. A three frame page would be perfect, but as I mention, I can't use frames.

Look forward to any help.
Bob

FesterSXS · Aug 24, 2005

If you want to use SSI (Server Side Includes) then you will need to rename your .html files to .shtml. I dont think you can get around this.

Another option would be to have them as .asp files but that leaves you with the same problem of renaming files.

With ASP files you can include files like this:

[blue]header.asp[/blue]

Code:

<html>
<head>

</head>
<body>
[red]your header code here[/red]

home.asp

Code:

[blue]<!-- #include file = "include/header.asp" -->[/blue]

[red]your page content here[/red]

[green]<!-- #include file = "include/footer.asp" -->[/green]

[green]footer.asp[/green]

Code:

[red]your footer code here[/red]

</body>
</html>

Tony

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robert89 · Aug 24, 2005

Hi FesterSXS,
First of all, thanks for reading and understanding the example. Makes your information more valuable.
Was aware of the ASP option (but not the exact code), and will probably do a mock-up based on this. Creating one/two asp templates and doing a global update of the html links in the exisiting site would produce the result fairly quickly i.e. low labour/time cost.

Anyway, thanks again.

Bob

tsdragon · Aug 24, 2005

There is a way to make the server scan all .html files for SSI, not just .shtml files. With Apache its very easy to do. It shouldn't be difficult for other servers. However, your server maintainers may not want to do it, since it would then scan all .html files for SSI - an overhead they may not want to incur. I don't know if it is possible to do it on a directory level, but I doubt it.

Tracy Dryden

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard. [dragon]

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