Articles: User's Guide To SSI

For your first experiment use a website that is on the same domain as the one that now contains that .txt file. Use your HTML editor to open the web page that you want the ad to appear in. Find the line where you want the ad to actually appear and then insert this line of code:

 <!--#include virtual="/thenameofyourfile.txt" -->

Make sure that you position it just where you want it to appear on your page and you’re done. If you want two, three, four or even more different ads to appear on your page then just build more ads, save them as .txt files, save them to the same domain and then use the same call but with the corresponding changes to the file name.

One thing you must do though is to then save the HTML page that has the call on it as a .shtml file and make sure that all links to that page link to the page with the .shtml file extension. At the moment that works on just one domain but you can have a page on any domain name on your server with an SSI call that calls that file, or those files, from the domain where you have it stored. You can also arrange it so that you don’t have to use the ..shtml extension and can revert to the more usual .html extension.

To do that you need to arrange with your host to have your server set up. It requires a small adjustment to your Apache config file and if you don’t know what you are doing it is best left to the techs at your host.

Once the adjustment is made add these lines of code to your root .htaccess file:

Then all you have to do with any page on any of your domains is to include the call as shown above but make sure that the path to your file is correct and you are done. Of course this system can be done for many things besides ads and as one board advisor said when asked about them, “… you don’t use includes? How do you update pages without really updating them?”

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