SSI Problem

awieds · Mar 9th, 2008, 18:14

Hi,

I have developed a website and am now trying to use include files for my footers. I have been playing around with it for a while now and am just fed up. It is not working! The code I am using for the include is:



and the code in the footer file is:

<div id="bottomMenu" style="clear:left;">
<span><a href="index.html">Home</a> | <a href="company.html">Company</a> | <a href="docservice.html">Technical Documentation Services</a> | <a href="techandss.html">Technology & Single Sourcing</a> | <a href="products.html">Products</a> | <a href="downloads.html">Downloads & Resources</a> | <a href="search.html">Search Site</a> | <a href="contact.html">Contact Us</a></span><br />

</div>

I tried placing the <div> tags on the index page as well but it didn't make any difference. It is just not including the file.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks!
awieds

saltedm8 · Mar 9th, 2008, 18:26

look into php, http://www.tizag.com/phpT/include.php , thats the best i can come up with

awieds · Mar 9th, 2008, 19:00

That worked!! Thank you so much. The only problem is that then I need all my files to have a .php file extension, is there any way around this?

saltedm8 · Mar 9th, 2008, 21:25

sorry no, not that i know of , but a php extension will not be any different to a html one

awieds · Mar 10th, 2008, 05:16

What do you mean it won't be different? Sorry I am not very familiar with PHP, I have used asp extensively but never PHP.
Let's say my homepage is index.php, do I need to redirect the index.html to index.php or will it load automatically like index.html?

Thanks,
awieds

MikeHopley · Mar 10th, 2008, 08:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by awieds

That worked!! Thank you so much. The only problem is that then I need all my files to have a .php file extension, is there any way around this?

You can tell your server to run PHP scripts on your HTML files.

Alternatively you can rename your HTML files to PHP files, and tell your server to redirect all fileName.html requests to fileName.php

saltedm8 · Mar 10th, 2008, 09:53

Quote:

Let's say my homepage is index.php, do I need to redirect the index.html to index.php or will it load automatically like index.html?

you dont need to re-direct. just remove the index.html and it will take you to index.php instead

MikeHopley · Mar 10th, 2008, 10:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by saltedm8

you dont need to re-direct. just remove the index.html and it will take you to index.php instead

But for an established website, you would be wise to redirect old pages rather than risk losing some SE ranking and breaking some bookmarks.