Another dumb SSI question.

[Css Lover]

One of those niggling problems I face right now. Not a big deal, but you search
Google a few times and get nothing but madness so you come here to the sane bit
of the internet.

My dilema is this.......

I ended up changing all web site pages to shtml, but when I was through, I
realised that 5 pages , which have various javascript ect, were left as htm
files, not xhtml. I could not verify them as xhtml and so thought I'd leave
them as htm and get them xhtml verified at some later date. It is no problem as
these 5 pages differ from the rest of the site. I' d like them xhtml but got
other issues to resolve for now.

So, I now realise that I might need to alter those 5 pages to end with .shtm,
whilst all the rest will be shtml.

What is it to be?

.shtm?

or

.shtml?

Cheers in advance

[Murray *ACE*]

Are you talking about XHTML or SHTML?

> What is it to be?

It couldn't possibly matter.

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"Css Lover" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> One of those niggling problems I face right now. Not a big deal, but you
> search
> Google a few times and get nothing but madness so you come here to the
> sane bit
> of the internet.
>
> My dilema is this.......
>
> I ended up changing all web site pages to shtml, but when I was through,
> I
> realised that 5 pages , which have various javascript ect, were left as
> htm
> files, not xhtml. I could not verify them as xhtml and so thought I'd
> leave
> them as htm and get them xhtml verified at some later date. It is no
> problem as
> these 5 pages differ from the rest of the site. I' d like them xhtml but
> got
> other issues to resolve for now.
>
> So, I now realise that I might need to alter those 5 pages to end with
> .shtm,
> whilst all the rest will be shtml.
>
> What is it to be?
>
> .shtm?
>
> or
>
> .shtml?
>
> Cheers in advance
>

[Css Lover]

The web site is 99% xhtml, but I have 5 pages that are html 4.01. All are
verified as Kosher, as it were.

I have done more research and found some people talking about how you
actually need to just name all your files as shtml whether they are xhtml or
html. I'm not sure what to call htm, but that's the file extension for my html
4.01 pages.

There are a lot of people talking nonsense online regarding this issue. It
would likely be better for me if I installed an Apache Server, I'm not in a
position where I have access 24/7 to the internet.

That will be my next question, in respect to Apache and how to simply set it
up to see your SSI in action locally.

DW allows me to see all the SSI pages, and click on the SSI file which covers
that section or html I've cut off.

[Murray *ACE*]

> The web site is 99% xhtml, but I have 5 pages that are html 4.01. All are

> verified as Kosher, as it were.

Makes no difference whatever.

> I have done more research and found some people talking about how you
> actually need to just name all your files as shtml whether they are xhtml
> or
> html. I'm not sure what to call htm, but that's the file extension for my
> html
> 4.01 pages.

If you have pages containing server-side includes (HTML ones, that is), the
MUST be named with a name that triggers a server parse of the page. For
example, if my page contains this markup -

<!--#include virtual="/whatever.monkeybutt" -->

then for that monkeybutt file to be included as desired, the parent page
MUST be named -

foo.shtm
foo.shtml
foo.asp (if hosting on a Windows server)

Does it matter which? No.


If you are using PHP includes instead of HTML includes, then the parent page
MUST be named with a php extension.

> There are a lot of people talking nonsense online regarding this issue.

But that's always the case.

> It
> would likely be better for me if I installed an Apache Server, I'm not in
> a
> position where I have access 24/7 to the internet.

Why? What is your OS?

> DW allows me to see all the SSI pages, and click on the SSI file which
> covers
> that section or html I've cut off.

I don't understand what this means.

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"Css Lover" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> The web site is 99% xhtml, but I have 5 pages that are html 4.01. All are
> verified as Kosher, as it were.
>
> I have done more research and found some people talking about how you
> actually need to just name all your files as shtml whether they are xhtml
> or
> html. I'm not sure what to call htm, but that's the file extension for my
> html
> 4.01 pages.
>
> There are a lot of people talking nonsense online regarding this issue. It
> would likely be better for me if I installed an Apache Server, I'm not in
> a
> position where I have access 24/7 to the internet.
>
> That will be my next question, in respect to Apache and how to simply set
> it
> up to see your SSI in action locally.
>
> DW allows me to see all the SSI pages, and click on the SSI file which
> covers
> that section or html I've cut off.
>
>
>

[Css Lover]

My OS is XP Home, I've installed Apache, but need to configure the parsing of
my shtml files and to point to my server directory.

What I meant to say was that when I right click the files I've put in a
directory I've made for Apache, I get the option to open them with Apache, but
get a Dos screen pop up with my error message.

I'd like to not have the error message and just be 'in' the Apache server. I
realise I need to study it but this part is just the basic setting up of the
server. Some people here might set this up whilst balanced on one hand and
doing a crossword.

[Murray *ACE*]

One of us is very confused.

You do not open files with Apache. Apache is not a browser. It's a
webserver. It would serve pages to the browser that requests the files
with -

[url]http://localhost/whatever/foo.php[/url]....

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"Css Lover" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> My OS is XP Home, I've installed Apache, but need to configure the parsing
> of
> my shtml files and to point to my server directory.
>
> What I meant to say was that when I right click the files I've put in a
> directory I've made for Apache, I get the option to open them with Apache,
> but
> get a Dos screen pop up with my error message.
>
> I'd like to not have the error message and just be 'in' the Apache server.
> I
> realise I need to study it but this part is just the basic setting up of
> the
> server. Some people here might set this up whilst balanced on one hand and
> doing a crossword.
>
>
>

[Css Lover]

You know it must be me who is confused.

If you install Apache and right click a html file in its root directory, you
get the option to open it, so I said 'yes, open it', and got a dos window.

I'll follow the Apache help files and try to figure this out. A dos window is
a start.

I just want to be able to configure look at php and ssi on my own computer,
without messing about on my server space. I have a few blog php scripts and
wish to see if I can make my own blog by using css and some graphics and maybe
messing with the code a bit.

I suppose I should use the DW ftp and just test live, but I note many
concerned web masters seem to have this Apache server and like to test things
locally before going live.