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Apr 23.2008

Whatup!

I would consider myself knowledgeable enough in the use of includes files in an html document but I am stumped on this problem. I’ve done it before at my previous company and understand the value of only having to change one file to affect a header or a footer. BUT! Recently I was optimizing this site: [url]http://www.hawksontherocks.com/indexDIVtestNAV.shtml[/url]

And wasn’t able to get this code: <!–#include virtual=”/includes/footer.inc” –> to work in an HTML file. I had to change it to and .shtml (as you can see in the link provided) for it to work. What’s up with that? I called my host and they said HTML files should work fine. Do I have to use an .shtml file? How do other sites do it?

Little advice!

Thanks.

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@KDLAApr 23.2008 — .HTML isn't a page format for server-side interaction. It is a "static" file type. When you added ".SHTML" to the file type, you changed the configuration to allow server-side interaction with the page content.

Reference: http://bignosebird.com/ssi.shtml

KDLA
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@TheBearMayApr 23.2008 — If you really, really want to have all .html files processed by the server you'll need to add something along the lines of:

AddHandler server-parsed .html

to your .htaccess or httpd.conf file.
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@bdavey311authorApr 23.2008 — Awesome, Thanks guys - I believe the .htaccess was what I was looking for.
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