Using HTML Server Side Includes (SSI)

Our Web server allows server side includes, a feature that can help you customize your pages.

To use server side includes (SSI):

• Your web page must have the suffix .shtml instead of the usual .html suffix.
• All SSI tags have the form:

        <!--#command-->

  where the various command options are described below.

SSI commands include:

• The echo tag allows you to insert various items, such as the URL of the page, its last modification time, the current date and time, and so on.
• The include tag allows you to insert any file into your page.
• The exec tag allows you to execute a program that generates output to be inserted into your page.

Complete working example

Here is a complete working example of several SSI features, including a working Web page counter script.

• Example page.
• SHTML source for that page.
• The C language wrapper that implements setuid permissions for the web counter script, as discussed under `HTML Server Side Includes: Permission problems'.
• The web counter script, written in the Python language.

Last updated: 2000/07/28 23:35:33 UT
URL: http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/html/ssi.html