Something simple i need to do but cant figure it out...

Ok lets just say i have about 21 pages on my site.

On each page i have an area where i put text, but i want for that area of text to be able to be editied from one place only. So i want to apply changes to all the 21 pages by just changing one area like what css does with fonts and styles except for i actualy have to insert content.

How can i do this wihthout converting all my pages to php or something?
there must be a simple way!

thanks ahead

 

I hate to say this but iframes? Nah PHP would be the best I think.

 

Check out this post:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2145250#post2145250
by Dan it should cover basically everything on the subject hopefully!

 

Thanks! i did everything dan mentioned for server-side includes and it worked! i am having one problem though. I creating my new homepage as a .shtml and deleted my old .html homepage. For some reason i can't get my server to recognize the shtml as being my homepage (the page that shows up when going to my domain). i can get it to show up if i type in the full name www. mydomain.com/home.shtml

how can i set it to my front page?

thanks!

 

Nice one! I think you have to add it to the accepted list of homepages inside the DirectoryIndex list for your Apache config file if you have access to it ?

EDIT: I did a bit of futher searching rather than doing the above try the following. Make a new text file, and add this to it:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.shtml index.shtm

Code (markup):

Then save this file as .htaccess and upload it to the document root. Note: The file is simply to be saved as .htaccess no .txt exstensions or anything like that. Also this file might already exist in your root folder, if so just add the code to the exsisting file.

 

Ok I was kinda looking for the same thing but for different purpose...this helps

 

I did that and it worked! thanks so much, rep added!!

 

Ok guys, im having trouble again. Ive converted all my pages to shtml (and all the internal links) but for some reason, the include is only working on the home page (or only one page). any other page i try to put it in i get this: [an error occurred while processing this directive] where the include should be. Im guessing i need to make some adjustments, what do i do?

 

Ok nvm it doesnt work for any of my pages!!i guess i thought i had inserted the include on my homepage, but i didnt icorumba!! this is what my .htacess looks like:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.shtml index.shtm home.shtml
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
Options +Includes

was i correct in putting those in?

what am i doing wrong..

 

HAHA Scratch everything i just said in the last two posts! i had unknlowingly deleted the .html file in my directory that the include was pointing too!

everything is jolly now