Enabling SSI without .shtml

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  1. #1
    Hello friends,

    I've an established website. All the files have .html extension.

    Now I want to enable SSI (server side includes) because this site contains too many pages and updating is painful task.

    My website is hosted on Apache server. SSI works if I give .shtml extension to my files. Since this is an established website I can’t change the file name to .shatml

    I heard that SSI function can be enabled even without .shtml file extension.

    Please help me

    Thanks :)
    Mahesh
     
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  2. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    #2
    From my understanding it's not possible. A workaround would be to add a line in your .htaccess to read PHP code on html pages, so then you can just use PHP includes and achieve the same thing.
     
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    i use this in my .htaccess file and it does the job for me so far

     
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    hans Well-Known Member

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    from my own direct experience it works - my host had SSI enabled for all .*htm* extensions - hence also NON-shtml and I used it successfully for years until months ago when i switched to PHP included site-wide

    it normally should work with the following 2 lines in your

    .htaccess

    AddType text/html .html .htm
    AddHandler server-parsed .html .htm

    IF however later you want to use PHP includes THEN either site-wide OR in that particular subfolder you would have to REMOVE the a.m. handler again
     
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    kk5st Prominent Member

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    It is a not particularly good idea to parse all files as SSI. It just puts extra load on the server.

    If you are not able/willing to convert file names to the shtml extension, use the XBitHack. With XBitHack on, either in httpd.conf or in an .htaccess file, you need only chmod +x filename for each file that actually has includes. Only those .html files with the x-bit set will be server parsed.

    cheers,

    gary
     
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    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    I've heard others say this as well with parsing PHP. I never noticed any considerable difference in load times though.
     
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    Ok, I'm a newbie and I am afraid of files that start with a dot (e.g., .htaccess).

    Happily, I found a widget on my hosting company's CPANEL admin page called Apache Handlers

    I just added a handler:
    server-parsed .html

    Ba-da-bing.

    Of course, I know I have added a performance hit. Someday I might re-investigate that bithack thing mentioned above.

    SSI is just too much of a productivity gain for me to give it up.
     
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