File names

BillSamuel · 05-16-2002, 02:57 PM

Do files using server side includes have to use the .shtml extension, or do you have a way to use SSIs with the .html extension?

Darkman · 05-16-2002, 08:42 PM

i think you can use just .html files with SSI, but i am not 100% sure as I haven't tried it myself... but no one has mentioned .shtml files, so i am assuming you dont need it with SSI...

**Mike** · 05-16-2002, 11:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BillSamuel
Do files using server side includes have to use the .shtml extension, or do you have a way to use SSIs with the .html extension?

Hi Bill,

Files using server side includes must end in .shtml

- Mike

BillSamuel · 05-18-2002, 09:19 PM

I thought I'd read once that there was a fairly simple way a host could make SSI work with .html files.

Anyway, I guess you could make the files accessible using the .html instead of .shtml extension through the .htaccess file, although I gather that would require a separate entry for each page. Is that correct?

ppeay · 05-18-2002, 09:59 PM

yeap that can be done but if the server has to check every html file for SSI that would an unnecessary load on the server and tend to slow things down for everyone.

**Mike** · 05-20-2002, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BillSamuel
I thought I'd read once that there was a fairly simple way a host could make SSI work with .html files.

Anyway, I guess you could make the files accessible using the .html instead of .shtml extension through the .htaccess file, although I gather that would require a separate entry for each page. Is that correct?

Bill,

The SSI extension .shtml tells Apache to fire up the Server Side Includes daimon and open it for this file. Not sure why you would want to try to do this using the .htaccess file, but that would not work anyway, because it has no way to tell Apache that it is a Server Side Includes file.

- Mike

ppeay · 05-20-2002, 02:44 PM

Why do you not want to use .shtml files? Any html code that will run on a .html page will run on a .shtml page as far as I know?
If you just don't want people to know that you are running .shtml pages, I guess you could use frames and frame the .shtml page within a .html page of the same name.

BillSamuel · 05-20-2002, 03:06 PM

1. If you are moving a site with .html pages (like Webseed's), and want to use SSIs, the requirement of .shtml extensions means all your URLs must change. Also, some people think of .html as the standard extension, and thus might enter URLs without the "s".

2. The htaccess comment was aimed at providing a way for people using the html extension to be automatically redirected to the shtml pages. That would work, wouldn't it?

ppeay · 05-20-2002, 03:27 PM

Well you have to enter the SSI in anyway so you can change the name then. I guess if people enter some of you pages directly using something like IE favorites,ect that this could be a problem. If its just the the index file then you can just redirect index.html to index.shtml using a redirect. You could also do a custom not found page, informing them of the change and redirecting to a page containing links to all your pages.
I have not used the .htaccess much myself so someone else will have to answer that question.

**Mike** · 05-21-2002, 10:02 AM

Inorder to take advantage of Server Side Includes technology, on our servers, you must name the extension of the file calling the SSI function(s), .SHTML.

- Mike