I tried to use the Dreamweaver funtion to add server includes. I want to include one page inside another page that is already using a template. In Dreamweaver the page looks how it supposed to, but in the internet browser the page is empty, meaning the page that was supposed to be included is not there. What am I doing wrong?
This is the part of code that is not working:
<!--#include file="meetings2008.html" -->
Here is the page that has the empty content, because the ssi is not working
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Ok, first one is yes. Now explain me more the second point. On the tutorial I read that you don't have to change your file name into shtml, by using XBitHack on
Where in the page code do I have to add this "XBitHack on" and where do I add the second part:
"So, to add SSI directives to an existing page, rather than having to change the file name, you would just need to make the file executable using chmod:
chmod +x pagename.html"
Can you show me an example?
the chmod +x pagename.html refers to changing the permissions of the file on the server. how you would do it depends on your environment; personally I use "FileZilla" FTP client, right-click on the file, choose "File Attributes", and use the graphical user interface to choose the permissions I want. Then FileZilla creates the chmod command for me.
As for turning xbit hack on, here's a link with some info part way down the page: http://www.parkansky.com/t
btw... you can also do includes with PHP or ASP, so if you are using either of those already on your site you might think about doing your includes the same way. Personally I use PHP on almost all my web pages, and I use PHP include statements rather than SSI. My .htaccess is set to interpret all .htm and .html documents for php, so no need to change file extensions to php.
Ok, just one last question. In all those tutorials I can't make the difference between the normal page (np) and the page I want to include (ip) inside several of those normal pages. On which page, np or ip do I put the code "XBitHack on", on which page the attributes "chmod +x pagename.html" should go and which pages need to be parsed, np or ip?
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by: yessirnosirPosted on 2008-10-13 at 05:29:04ID: 22701774
a couple of things to check
-have you verified that your server is setup to handle SSI?
-is your file extension shtml, to trigger the server to check for SSI?
see this for more info: http://httpd.apache.org/do