Apache Server Side Includes
for Basic Hosting Accounts
SSI (Server Side Includes) are directives that are placed in HTML pages, and evaluated on the server
while the pages are being served. They let you add dynamically generated content to an existing HTML
page, without having to serve the entire page via a CGI program, or other dynamic technology.
The decision of when to use SSI, and when to have your page entirely generated by some program, is
usually a matter of how much of the page is static, and how much needs to be recalculated every time
the page is served. SSI is a great way to add small pieces of information, such as the current time.
But if a majority of your page is being generated at the time that it is served, you need to look for
some other solution.
FreeBSD Basic accounts are configured by default to process Server Side Includes for any file ending
in *.shtml. If you also want .html and .htm files to be parsed for server side includes, do the following:
- Create a .htaccess file in the html document directory (/webdocs/ or /htdocs/)
- Add the following "AddType" directive in the .htaccess file:
AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddHandler server-parsed .htm
Additional Documentation
A great How To on Server Side Include directives can be found at the Apache web site:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/ssi.html#basicssidirectives
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